L’absence est presente negotiates the philosophical aspect of absence and how it comes into presence by artistic interpretation, particularly by staging a play or a film. It questions how absence can be glimpsed or displayed.

A game or a play has specific structures and rules. Inbetween those structures — in the interplay of repetition — we can glimpse absence. In this flickering between presence and absence a space unfolds which enables the emergence of poiesis in a hermeneutic sense.

In my artistic practice I examine structures, mechanics and mechanisms of art and image production itself, mainly the frame conditions and production processes.

In L’absence est presente a puzzle, after being put together, displays the text “L’absence est presente”. It’s the playful attempt to make the absent, the still invisible, the non-perceptible present by the generation of text.