"AURA is the title of a book by Carlos Fuentes, published in 1962, the year of my birth, and tells the story of an old woman who summons the past by making another woman, much younger appear, Aura. The two women are one. The book is about the desire to appear and to remain. Aura is thus a kind of ghost and a voice that is present in absence. Aura is also a woman's name. The artists who appear in my work have an aura, there is a rumour around them for the stories that surround them, for the disappearance to which they were subjected."