ACHILLE FILIPPONI: In a student's creative life there's a balance to preserve between personal experience and conceptual approach. Do you feel a kind of flattening in the portfolio production? And how would you fight this?
NICOLAS POILLOT: Yes, I do feel there's often a kind of flattening, not always in intention, but in form.
The portfolio can sometimes become a coded object, almost like a product. And in that process, something essential can get lost: the cracks, the contradictions, the rawness that come from lived experience.
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