The Waves - inexorably crashing waves accompanied by the sound of the sea - introduces a new aspect of interactivity. As the viewer approaches the screen, the movement of the image slows to a complete stop. As the image slows down, the sound also stops. Conversely, when the visitor steps back, the image gradually resumes its normal pace and the sound regains its rhythm. Beyond the apparent simplicity of the device, this work proves complex in the singular relationship it introduces with the viewer, between poetry and melancholy in the face of time that we choose to suspend or not.
For Thierry Kuntzel, The Waves is finally "a tribute to Virginia Woolf (to the book that bears that title), to her writing, her invention of time, her person - that life always on the brink of drowning (that was her real end), between terror and ecstasy."