Creating wax butterflies with Michel Jocaille

Michel Jocaille is a contemporary artist from the north of France. He works as artist-in-residence at POUSH. He uses mixed media to create sculptures and installations on different scales, most of which are made up of assemblages of materials with a camp aesthetic, driven by a sense of artificiality and exaggeration which lead to a theatrical extravagance. The artist is interested in questions relating to the construction of identity and love. His favourite materials are wax, paraffin, and printed velvet panne, which he works on using a digital laser. His images are the result of digital photographs that he creates using a distorting mirror, focusing on the natural world (anemones, jellyfish, coral, flowers, animals, etc.) that give an impression of fluidity and hybridity, to reveal the idea of an equitable and hybrid world in constant mutation, like a queer, egalitarian ecology.