ARTIST STATEMENT

Hervé’s collage practice is rooted in a dialogue between modernist experimentation and the layered visual experience of contemporary life. His compositions deconstruct and reassemble form, perspective, and meaning, creating visual constellations that resist a single reading. Fragmentation becomes a strategy—one that invites viewers to occupy multiple vantage points at once, where figure and space, subject and perception, continuously shift and overlap. Drawing on his background in graphic design, Hervé approaches collage with a heightened sensitivity to balance, proportion, and spatial rhythm. These design principles provide a structural anchor for works that are otherwise guided by intuition, improvisation, and the poetics of chance. His practice understands seeing not as a passive encounter but as an active, interpretive process shaped by memory, culture, and emotion. Each collage becomes a site where the familiar and the imagined coexist, prompting reflection on what is revealed, obscured, or reconstructed. Informed by his multicultural perspective, Hervé’s visual language feels at once architectural and lyrical—minimalist in form yet resonant in depth. For him, collage is more than a medium; it is a philosophy of connection and perception, a way of assembling the world anew through the fragments it leaves behind.

BIO

Hervé is a multidisciplinary artist whose design sensibility deeply informs his collage practice. He holds a BFA in Graphic Design from Virginia Commonwealth University and an MFA in Photography from the School of Visual Arts in New York. His work explores the intersections of form, perception, and visual culture, drawing on both early modernist experimentation and the complexities of contemporary life. Through layered compositions that merge intuition and structure, Hervé creates collages that challenge fixed interpretations and invite viewers into shifting visual perspectives. His multicultural background and training across disciplines shape a practice that is architectural, poetic, and rooted in the active process of seeing.