Varnish drawing on glass plate, 120 × 50 cm, light projection, 2023.

A landscape painted on a fragile glass plate unfolds with intensity through its projection. Its interpretation remains uncertain: above all, an immense cloud captures the viewer’s gaze. Is it smoke from a fire, the remnants of an explosion? The spectator feels almost enveloped by this unsettling image.

The concept of the Risk Society, developed by sociologist Ulrich Beck shortly after the Chernobyl disaster in 1986, illustrates this tension. According to him, modernity has given rise to a risk society, in the sense that it increasingly devotes itself to debating the risks it has itself produced, to preventing them, and to responding to them.