Encounters
What did your encounters in Paris mean to you?
In Paris, encounters were decisive. Not only for what they taught me, but for the questions they generated.
The confrontation with Italian and French artists placed me before different visions and well-established languages. I listened carefully, I discussed, but I also felt a distance growing.
It was not a polemical distance, but a silent one. It had to do with the way each person positioned themselves in relation to form and to the meaning of making.
Those encounters did not give me immediate answers, but they helped me clarify, slowly, what I did not want to become.
Through dialogue with others, I began to recognize, with greater precision, my own direction. Over time, it became clear that confrontation alone was no longer enough.
I needed to test the creation outside of private dialogue, in front of others, in the public space of the gaze.
Conversation with Yvon Taillandier
