The Hermes Project

hermes window

Honk kong exceptionnal window

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Honk kong window 2

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Honk kong window 3

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Honk kong window 4

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Honk Kong window 5

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Honk kong window, work in progress, Hermes scarfs, 230x90x60cm

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Video still, 6'55", Computer generated image animation

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Video still, 6'55", Computer generated image animation

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Video still, 6'55", Computer generated image animation

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Video still, 6'55", Computer generated image animation

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Video still, 6'55", Computer generated image animation

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notes on the collaboration with Hermes.

First of all, I was thrilled by my visit at the personal museum that the Hermes foundation has in Paris : I understood there that Hermes was more than great fashion or beautiful objects, it was first History.
Through the centuries, Hermes developed its creations according to the origin of his founder.Everything created since respects this identity, and my purpose was to do the same.

In my work, I always tend to create a sculpture, a painting or a video who are animated, brought to life.
No matter if it is a still image, a painting or a drawing, it reveals the living aspect of the medium I am using and the image seems to move.

For the Hermes project, my idea was to bring life to the scarf, chosen for its painterly properties, by manipulating it in a certain way that it looks animated by its own will.
I created a digital scarf that I followed during his movement, exactly like if I would have discover an organic form evolving in the ocean.The results shows a scarf who looks to have his own movement and life.It might be considered as animism, this believe that every object possess soul and spirit.

In the sculptural version, I worked on organic shapes who are familiar in my paintings.
Those shappes are mapped by the scarfs, in order to create a vivid animated skin.
By manipuling the scarf, creating waves and patterns with the own scarf’s color and design, it became the brush and the pigments that are my favorite mediums to work with.
There is a huge history of the drapery from historical painting until contemporary philosphy, and this sculpture is an attempt to work with this historical topic whitin a contemporary object and situation.