Kim: As a dance performer, my body is my primary medium of expression. It is also my refuge. And as an artist, one of my main purposes is to touch, connect with and inspire other human beings.

For many years I made my body a vessel for other creators, mainly choreographers. I was trying to find my voice and my creative output in someone else’s piece, trying to find my way in someone else’s universe. And I truly enjoyed it. That was my experience until I started to collaborate with Eric Paré in 2013, when I discovered I could also be the sole leader of my own expression. Dance photography has been part of our light painting journey since the beginning.

Part of the creative process, dancing in the location is for me a way to connect with the environment, with myself and with Eric as he silently captures and is the only witness of those intimate moments of movement with nature. Tuning in with my sensations as I let nature inspire my movement, my state of presence. It prepares me in a way for the performative and almost meditative aspect of what light painting sessions require from me. I seek to merge with the environment as much as I can. Like a ritual, Eric & I have been creating dance photography during sunset & sunrise all around the world since 2015 in parallel to our light painting art. Photography immortalizes and transforms what would otherwise be an ephemeral moment of performance into a timeless object of art. This part of our collaborative work is my creative voice, the visual poetry I want to share with the world.

This first chapter of 9 images, put forward some of our silhouette pieces created within the past few years. It expresses my curiosity about our ability to connect with the poetry of an anonymous moving body. When we don’t see the person, can we still perceive what the performer is experiencing in a single ephemeral moment? Merging and interacting with the elements I’m immersed in is at the heart of my process. Capturing the energy, the motion and the emotion of a fleeting moment when the immensity of the landscape meets the depth of a human's inner world.



Eric: Before we start our light-painting sessions at night, we always warm up ourselves by creating these dreamy images where Kim is dancing in a magnificent landscape. That is her time, that is her moment, and I exist solely to capture her graciousness. We've been making these images for years and it has always been clear for me that they were for her: for her portfolio, for her social media. But now, as NFTs. Kim has the commercial rights to use these images, and I’m glad to give her full freedom through her creations