En langage naturel2025, mixed media
En langage naturel investigates the fragility of language in the face of systems that translate, shape, or distort it. The installation immerses the viewer in a space of collision between human and machine, reality and fiction, memory and flow, where language hesitates, repeats, and seeks itself.
Laser-engraved on reclaimed cardboard, the volumetric pieces materialize a fragile, recomposed language. Acting as fragments of thought or hesitant slogans, they highlight the tension between appearance and meaning while employing repetition, accumulation, and superimposition. Each element functions as a device to make language’s movement visible and tangible, and to reveal its effects on perception and relationships.
Through the archival and collaged use of images and words collected from the Internet, the installation navigates intuition and intention, conscious and unconscious, drift and determination, offering a critical yet poetic reflection on how collective and ideological narratives shape individual identity and experience.
Exhibition view: En langage naturel, École Nationale des Arts Décoratifs, Paris, 2025
Photo credit: Amélie Canon and Valentin Degnieau
Photo credit: Amélie Canon and Valentin Degnieau