"What interests me is that which escapes immediate obviousness."
In the tumult of daily life, what still manages to take your breath away or stop your watch?
Waking up every morning beside my wife. And, of course, art, without hesitation. Encountering a work of art is part of my daily life, yet it continues to move me. Even more than the object itself, it is the creative intelligence that inhabits a work that deeply touches me. This capacity that art has to shift our perspective, to open up an inner space, remains a vital necessity for me. As Cesare Pavese wrote: "Art is the proof that life is not enough." I believe everything is there.
What is your relationship with the "Beautiful" in your daily life?
I do not believe in a universal definition of beauty. What we find beautiful is often that which resonates intimately with our sensibility. Beauty arises when something touches us both emotionally and intellectually. Sometimes, everything plays out in a tiny tension: an almost imperceptible balance, the right color, a form precise to the millimeter. It is these details that create emotion and give birth to a form of obviousness.
If you had to steal a single image, a single scent, or a single sound from the world to keep just for yourself, what would it be?
Undoubtedly a work by James Turrell. His work goes beyond the image, the object, and even the idea: it is sensory, meditative. Facing his works, I feel a form of plenitude that is difficult to describe, as if time were suddenly dilating.
Do you ever find beauty where others see disorder or the ordinary?
Constantly. I am hypersensitive, demanding, and quite radical in my tastes; this mixture leads me naturally toward forms of singularity. What interests me is precisely what escapes immediate obviousness: a fragility, a tension, a subtlety. Then comes the process of familiarization, followed by the desire to share that perspective.
I profoundly believe that when an emotion is sincere, it always ends up finding an echo in someone else.
