« Hidden Signals », @Fotocentrum in Karis, Finland. January 2026 – Exhibition views

Hidden speaks to the unknown—the strange, the out-of-reach, the secretive, the subliminal, the unconscious, the silent. Signals suggests flickers of transmission taking shape—whether attributed to astral or cosmic realms, here they all originate from distant sources.

This exhibition emerges from the porous boundary between inner and outer worlds, through fleeting observations, otherworldly encounters, and subtle perceptions. It attends to unexpected presences, imperceptible movements, and messages that traverse both the visible and the unseen.
Influenced by Jung’s reflections on what he called modern myths, the exhibition explores how encounters with the extraordinary—whether celestial or psychic—are also manifestations of archetypal patterns and a deeper longing for wholeness.

Hari-Kuyō, celebrated on February 8, is the Japanese festival honoring broken sewing needles. It is a ritual of gratitude : women place worn or damaged needles in soft tofu or konjac to let them rest after their service, sometimes praying for improved skills. “Hari” means “needle” and “-kuyō” comes from a Sanskrit word, pūjā, meaning “to offer.”

Kokuzo Bosatsu is a bodhisattva and patron of handicrafts worshipped in Horinji Temple in Kyōto where Hari-kuyō is celebrated. This ritual is also meant as a prayer for improvement in one’s artistic and craft skills.

A mandala in progress, playing with crop circles, as they question the otherness, whatever they may be. In his book A Modern Myth (1958), Jung discusses lenticular UFOs as mandala motifs, or a call from the unconscious for unity and individuation.

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Fabrication sur une semaine, d’un mandala de sable tchenrezi par les moines du monastere de Gyutö, au centre Kalachakra, Paris, en celebration des 90 ans du dalai-lama.

C’est un mandala de l’Esprit, des 5 deites.

Ceremonie de dissolution du mandala, signifiant l’impermanence de toute chose, avec chants et explication exhaustive de la symbolique du mandala, ainsi que des echanges sur l’etat d’esprit des moines lors de sa fabrication. Puis distribution de sachets de sable, en symbole de delivrance des asservissements mentaux.

Remembering an Emma Kunz study I naively embroidered during a month stay at Sasso Residency in Ticino, Switzerland, back in 2017. I bought her book when I visited the Emma Kunz Zentrum and the healing grotto she discovered, from which she created Aion A, a healing rock powder. I wanted to interpret her pencil energetic drawing with thread and explore an unfamiliar color palette. Eventually I was unhappy with the fabric I used and the unnatural tones of the threads, and lost this embroidery but kept some pictures.

I early on somewhat became unconsciously obsessed with blossoms coming out of the merge of polarities, which is -and I found out much later on- actually Goethe’s spiritually intuitive color theory : too much light doesn’t allow colors to emerge, too much darkness doesn’t allow colors to emerge either. Colors physically emerge where light and darkness merge. The danse of polarities creates movement and colors, life.
“However well we get to know the world, it will always contain a day and a night side”. Goethe

Inside the Emma Kunz Zentrum with her pendulum drawings and the Aion A grotto nearby.

I only have B&W photos, ironically, but this is the place where I encountered natural dyeing and true colors.

My weaving teacher with her sister by their home temazcal, Oaxaca 2017

Adebaran, 2017