LEXESTQUODNOTAMUS

The collection of items LexEstQuodNotamus borrows the reference from the Council of the Notariats of the European Union, a Latin phrase meaning « What we write is the law ». Here, I use a materialist poetic to explore the bonds between different entities and emotional or legal territories, their inevitable entanglements, while focusing on a potential alternative acceptation of the notion of « law » and its conformation. Within arrangements in which symbolic and morphological dimensions get mixed up, different parties convene ideas of social constructions such as private property or family relationships.

These small entities evoke mystic instruments halfway between amulets and talismans. Both generally function on the same symbolic plane but are directed by different intentionalities, one protecting against something and the other bringing a specific energy to reach it. I decided to keep the fine demarcation line to avoid any binary morality and to focus primarily on their visual potential and their intrinsic material.

The six pieces presented here try their hand at an additional stage and explore more particularly certain intimate and conflictual feelings in tension on which, according to me, any inter-personal chemistry is greatly based and arises more precisely within what we call « communication ».