There are artworks you look at. And there are others you keep discovering, again and again.
That's one of the particularities of my Briller series.
An Unexpected Challenge: What Is the True Color of the Artwork?
When I wanted to photograph my pieces to feature them on my website, I found myself facing a rather unusual challenge: what is the true color of the artwork?
The one I see in the morning? The one that appears under natural daylight? Or the one revealed in the evening, when the light turns warmer?
The answer eventually became obvious: they're all true.
An Artwork That Genuinely Responds to Its Environment
The pieces in the Briller series have this particularity of transforming depending on the light around them.
Throughout the day, certain colors become more present while others seem to gently fade. Nuances appear. Depths reveal themselves. Certain details suddenly catch the eye when they were far more subtle just a few hours earlier.
Morning natural light doesn't quite tell the same story as late-afternoon light. And when evening comes, a room's lighting can reveal yet another facet of the piece.
The canvas stays the same. It's our perception of it that shifts with its environment.
Light Becomes Part of the Artwork
This interaction also means that a piece from the Briller series won't live exactly the same way in two different spaces.
A room's orientation, natural light, the seasons, the time of day, and even the type of indoor lighting can all influence which colors and nuances come through. A single artwork can therefore offer several visual experiences over the course of one day.
And that's exactly what I love. Because an artwork isn't created only to be observed for a few seconds. It enters a living space. It accompanies the days, the shifts in light, and the people who live around it. It evolves with its environment.
What If That's Exactly What "Briller" Means?
This particularity takes on even more meaning when we return to the story and message behind this series.
Briller (to shine) is an invitation to recognize your own light. To understand that the way we shine isn't always the same. There are moments when certain parts of us take up all the light. Others when they become more subtle.
And sometimes, all it takes is a change of environment, a new angle, or a different light to reveal something that was already there, but that we hadn't yet noticed.
My artworks do exactly that. They don't suddenly become different when the light changes: the colors were already there. The light simply reveals them differently.
And to me, that's where this particularity becomes deeply tied to the message of Briller.
An Artwork You Keep Discovering
This is also what makes it difficult to fully capture these pieces in a single photograph. An image captures one moment, one light, one angle. But the original artwork keeps evolving.
That's why the photo you see on this site is only a glimpse of the artwork, one precise moment, under one precise light. It doesn't replace the experience of seeing it in person, at different times of the day.
Because welcoming a piece from the Briller series into your home also means accepting that it can surprise you. One morning, a color will catch your eye. One evening, it might be a shade you'd never noticed before. And tomorrow, under a different light, you might discover it differently still.
Because sometimes, light doesn't create what shines. It simply reveals what was already there.
Bérénice Auger