Collection: Hybrid 2025 | Madrid, Spain

Yannick De Serre’s artistic practice is rooted in the intimate experiences of caregiving, where life and death coexist in constant tension. As both an artist and nurse, he draws from the raw emotional landscapes of his profession to explore the resilience of the human spirit. His work pays tribute to those who confront and transcend life’s challenges, placing the concept of "freedom" at its very core.

In recent years, De Serre has delved into the notion of ultimate freedom—death—creating a body of work that is both haunting and tender. His multidisciplinary approach fuses the precision of medical techniques with the expressive depth of visual art. Combining engraving with sutures and incorporating ephemeral and permanent inks, his funeral bouquets become powerful symbols of fragility and endurance. The integration of medical needles brings pain into physical form, transforming it into a poignant expression of loss and survival.

De Serre’s bouquets, delicate yet menacing, teeter between softness and violence, beauty and suffering. They seduce with their fleeting grace, only to confront viewers with the stark truth of mortality. His work invites us to embrace this tension, celebrating life’s impermanence while offering a glimpse of the freedom found on the other side of pain.