Rooted in his Guadeloupean background, Benoît Gilles Michel creates work that navigates the complex terrain of memory, spirituality, and identity. Engaging with materiality as both symbol and process, he combines organic and found elements to evoke ancestral connections, ritualistic gestures, and the layered nature of cultural transmission. His visual language reflects a deep sensitivity to the natural world and its entanglement with historical trauma and personal narrative. Whether through sculptural forms, altered objects, or tactile compositions, Michel constructs spaces of reflection that challenge binary understandings of self and other, origin and displacement. By drawing from everyday materials and spiritual motifs, he reconfigures notions of presence, resistance, and transformation. His work doesn’t seek resolution but instead invites viewers into an open-ended engagement with the visible and invisible structures that shape identity and place. ...
