Ancient spiritual practices, mythological imageries and religious behaviors have been at the center of my art making. For years, fascinated by the powerful influences that beliefs have played in many aspects of the human existence, I have been searching for common connections between them to try to understand their unshakable importance in the human psyche. “Syncretism” – a fusion of heterogeneous elements stemming from different philosophical or religious doctrines or visions of the world - symbolizes the way I look at the world. This same principle of fusion is applied in my work, where I create my own universe of religious gestures, imageries, and rituals. Echoing my subject, I have been experimenting for 2 years with 2 techniques: Vietnamese Mosaic and Portuguese Azulejo. Like jigsaws, these techniques offer ways of associating the opposite concepts of the Multiple and the One, creating back and forth between overview and vision of details. As a mise en abime of the process of ‘syncretization’, my project is based on a series of panels combining these techniques. I first paint a composition of esoteric symbols, characters or objects on tiles. Then, the tiles are broken into pieces or mixed, thus decomposing the represented patterns. The new-created fragments are then re-organized, as a kind of recursive process. A video I realized last year in Vietnam and staging an esoteric ceremony will accompany these panels.