During my »Très grand Buffet« show in Fribourg, someone noticed that the works from the »Virus«, »Merci, Danke, Thank You« and »Les larmes« series were done in ball-point pens. And this person asked if I drew with »Bic« ball-point pens and said that the company »Bic« is a financing supporter of Le Pen. An information in an official journal on the financing of political parties announced this fact. It’s shit to support Le Pen. But it’s also shit to have to think about these questions. I use »Bic« ball-point pens because they’re cheap and you can find them everywhere, they’re simple and fit well in my hand. I like using ball-point pens because everyone knows them and uses them. It’s a choice in relation to their universality, their non-color, their non-distinction. For me, working with ball-point pens is a political, artistic choice. Meaning I try to do my artist’s work politically in using this medium, for example. It is something I firmly believe as an artist. On the other hand, if I did a political work I shouldn’t be using »Bic« ball-point pens, but who do the other companies support politically? What about the ink pens, the markers? Should one work with a »Mont-Blanc« to have a clear conscience and belong at the same time to the elite recognisable by their writing material? Obviously I don’t ask myself all these questions, because I want to work and act. But I don’t want my energy to be taken over by information and informers who are conscientiously both politicized and impotent. Too much consciousness kills art and too much consciousness canalizes all the vital energy, stopping revolt from existing. What these overly conscious people forget is that I lead a battle. I fight a combat whose outcome seems to me uncertain but that I certainly won’t win by hiding behind a formalized, verifiable political commitment that is conformist and reassuring. I want to fight for more equality and justice, human equality, human justice. By doing my artist’s work politically, by asking myself questions politically and not by asking political questions, and by doing political with meaning.