I believe feeling “empty” or absent is a feeling common to us all. And which can transpire and take more or less time to dissipate.

It’s this feeling which pushed me to make this artwork. The feeling of being as empty and inert as a line that would outline a dead person in the street.

Here, reinforced by a red neon light, the color can be associated to blood but also to passion. A color as passionate as sanguine. The goal is not only to put forward the feeling of being absent but also to enlighten something that unites us all one way or another: death. An accidental death, a voluntary one or simply an unknown one.

The neon light, completely opposite to the white line on the cement, is a contradiction with what is

usually a triviality which here is highlighted. The neon light is placed in front of a car, a transportation device which has revolutionized our way of life and consumption in the past decades. A way of transport which is shared between all of us but with different perceptions from each of us.

This object is for me a place full of good and bad memories, all while knowing that this object was never produced with this in mind but rather for its sole use.

In industrial cities another type of transportation that is absolutely certain: the train. However, both of these types of transport put forward another type of death that affects us more and more: suicide, or as the train stations state, “accidents to individuals”.

This artwork puts forward the newest evil of our century: depression and misery of living (or just misery). Suicide is as dashed off as the white line traced around the dead on any street. As if the fact of being so many distanced us from one another.

This project was displayed during my exhibition of the 23-25th of may 2018, titled "Fearless after all". Where I explore questions about what it means to live a human life, and how one's context and perception of their reactions to reality are crucial to experiencing a deeply human existence, even through burdens.

40cmx165cm LED strips, steel​