“This new front is a movement which combines the wish for profound changes in our economic and social practice with changes in our psychic and spiritual approach to life. In its most general form, its aim is the activation of the individual, the restoration of man’s control over the social system, the humanisation of technology. It is a movement in the name of life, and it has such a broad and common base because the threat to life is today a threat not to one class, to one nation, but a threat to all.”
Erich Fromm
My work focuses on the importance of belief systems and cultural narratives as agencies of our conditioning. Being lured by the promises of unlimited civilizational progress, opportunism, and unbridled materialism, humanity gave life to power structures organized around corporate hegemony, political corruption, social division, violent repression, rampant inequality, and environmental meltdown. By inculcating a sense of powerlessness, these institutions tricked us into thinking things cannot change.
I believe that one of the ways to mobilize resistance and to subvert the existing circumstances lies with imagining a different, better future. By visualizing ideas around non-violent resistance, communal autonomy, cooperation, integrity, compassion, and equality as our guiding reference points, I wish to activate a sense of longing for a world in which people would live in peaceful coexistence with each other and with Nature.
I received a bachelor's degree in graphic design after studying at ECAL, University of Art and Design in Lausanne (2018), and later went on to obtain a Masters's in Photography, ECAL (2021). I mix different mediums such as photography, collage, editorial design, digital painting, video, 3d, and installation. My practice oscillates between the applied and cultural fields. I live and work between France and Switzerland.
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“This new front is a movement which combines the wish for profound changes in our economic and social practice with changes in our psychic and spiritual approach to life. In its most general form, its aim is the activation of the individual, the restoration of man’s control over the social system, the humanisation of technology. It is a movement in the name of life, and it has such a broad and common base because the threat to life is today a threat not to one class, to one nation, but a threat to all.” Erich Fromm
My work focuses on the importance of belief systems and cultural narratives as agencies of our conditioning. Being lured by the promises of unlimited civilizational progress, opportunism, and unbridled materialism, humanity gave life to power structures organized around corporate hegemony, political corruption, social division, violent repression, rampant inequality, and environmental meltdown. By inculcating a sense of powerlessness, these institutions tricked us into thinking things cannot change.
I believe that one of the ways to mobilize resistance and to subvert the existing circumstances lies with imagining a different, better future. By visualizing ideas around non-violent resistance, communal autonomy, cooperation, integrity, compassion, and equality as our guiding reference points, I wish to activate a sense of longing for a world in which people would live in peaceful coexistence with each other and with Nature.
I received a bachelor's degree in graphic design after studying at ECAL, University of Art and Design in Lausanne (2018), and later went on to obtain a Masters's in Photography, ECAL (2021). I mix different mediums such as photography, collage, editorial design, digital painting, video, 3d, and installation. My practice oscillates between the applied and cultural fields. I live and work between France and Switzerland.