How do I see today's woman? I see a woman in search of physical and intellectual freedom: free to move around the world, to think and act as she wishes. I like to associate the word freedom with happiness. Sometimes we look for it so far away, this freedom, when it is right beside us. It is this feeling that I wanted to translate in my paintings: women from Africa, India, South America... who move forward in life, naturally, free, confident, happy.

The body of the woman, dressed, decorated, is a theatre that stages fashions, religions and addictions such as drugs, alcohol... The look, often, detaches itself from these stagings to transmit its sincere emotion. It reflects the soul that inhabits this body. In the women I present for this exhibition, I have sought the contrast between the depth of their souls in their moved looks, and the superficiality of their finery which, in excess, become their shackles.

When I was asked to participate in this exhibition, I was immediately attracted. The woman is at the heart of my creation, her harmonious forms inspire me. I like to confuse her in all her states, seductive, active, powerful, coiled, adored... I like to sculpt her in freedom!

To transform into, to put oneself in the place of, to speak with a thousand-year-old mollusc, to go back in time through stone. I try to establish correspondences between the mineral, vegetable and animal world. The sculptures presented are born of a dialogue and a listening with the materials. I try to experience the freedom that nature offers us through the infinite variation of forms, constantly renewed.