“It’s amazing how, gradually within you, what you thought was an accessory becomes almost essential. I always wanted to be a dancer, yet I was not aware of the suffering, obligation, rigor, strength and mastery required. My feet were not suited to this art, but it was unthinkable to abandon the idea.

So I had to shape and refine my slippers to make them mine, to support and accompany me… which they have throughout my career.

It’s now over twenty years that I have worked to create with my slippers, which I have found to be an excellent partner. Twenty years since I had this piercing desire to know another artistic language, and for which I needed this noble material to express myself.

Of course, there are many slippers: beautiful, new, dirty, stored away, at rest, but they all convey existence and experience. It’s with them that I can express and share what I want to communicate.”

JEAN-CHARLES GIL