The Process

In the beginning, there was no imposed format or measurement. The first works were born free of any constraint of proportion: only matter and intuition guided their form.

Then the square imposed itself, without my really deciding it: never quite perfect, always in tension towards balance. It first took the form of large 150 × 150 cm plates, folded at the top and bottom (1 cm then 1 cm at each end) to allow hanging, bringing the height down to 146 cm: a 150 × 146 cm format. It then tightened into a more intimate format, following the same principle: a 125 × 125 cm plate, folded in the same way, for a height of 121 cm: 125 × 121 cm, which carried several years of my work.

None of this was calculated in advance. The form imposed itself at every stage of this journey (the freedom of the beginning, the almost-square formats, then this return to the 150 cm dimension, this time to give birth to an exact square), just as my whole process has always imposed itself: the symbols, the words, matter itself. It is only by looking at it afterwards that I recognised, each time, a coherence I had not sought.

I do not know everything these numbers and proportions carry. But I know, deep down, that something greater than me is at work in this geometry, an intuition that other artists before me, such as Hilma af Klint, also carried: that form, before being thought, can already be right.