L’éternité d’un instant (2022)

This work explores the inseparable link between life, death, and love. At the center of the composition, a man with a skeleton’s head, dressed in a tuxedo, embraces a woman whose hand bears a wedding ring. At first glance, the scene evokes love and union, but it reveals a deeper reflection on the fleeting nature of existence. Death is not depicted here as an end, but as an essential part of life. Two intimately linked forces that follow one another and respond to each other in an eternal cycle. Through this embrace, the work reminds us that love is not measured by the length of a life, but by the intensity with which it is lived. It invites us to love fully, to live each moment to the fullest, and to put nothing off until tomorrow. To live as if every moment could be our last, without fearing what lies ahead. For no one knows if they will see the next sunrise. It is also an invitation to find peace in the present, to be able to close one’s eyes each night with the feeling of having lived, loved, and accomplished everything that needed to be done today. Between the arms of life and those of death, love endures.