During the lockdown of March 2020, I had not much to do, jobwise. After a couple of days of joy, watching films in my bed, I experienced a couple of days of despair, turning around in my appartment, questionning the meaning of life. And then a question came out of nowhere: in a world dividing all piece of art in two categories, either black & white or colour, is it possible to create an artwork that would be both?

I then started to search how to combine those two states and which medium would suit the project best. In love with science, I'm especially interested in physics and biology. At some point I remembered an article about Erwin Schrödinger and his famous thought experiment called "Schrödinger's cat", illustrating one of quantum physics' main principle.

This experiment perfectly illustrates one of the fundamental principles of quantum physics, called quantum superposition. This principle states that a quantum system (such as an atom or a particle) can have several values for a certain observable quantity (such as its position or state of excitation). As long as no measurement is made, this system is in a state of superposition and can take all its possible values at random.

Wanting to design a work of art that is both in black and white and in colour, I used this principle of superposition to create a series of installations. By watching through the magnifying glass, the viewer takes a measurement, defining the state of the artwork. As long as this measurement has not been taken, the artwork is in a state of superposition and therefore both at the same time.