“This story is clearly linked to the allegory of Plato’s cave, to the shadows projected on the cave wall in front of chained slaves, who perceived these shadows as THE reality, as well as to the story of Kaspar Hauser. What interests me about Kaspar Hauser is not so much the historical aspect of the person and his origins, but more this terrible discovery of the world, the first day after years of captivity; the idea of de-educating, and the need to return to an earlier situation. With this new series of color drawings, in some ways I tried to make images that would be nothing more than projected shadows, coming from the outside world, that of Plato summons the world of ideas, the cave being the world of Being.” The exhibition is entitled “Dasein” in tribute to the concept invented by Martin Heidegger in Being and Time to discover the primal nature of “Being,” or Sein in German (“being as I am always myself”), which Descartes and Kant had left unexplored" - Christophe Chemin