“It is as if the force of fusion causes multiple fissions.” (Ignacio Ramonet, le Monde diplomatique 1995)
Parc de l'Observatoire, Genève (Photo Michael Perrot)
This series of sculptures systematically have two concave discs in metal assembled and marked with multiple cracks giving the whole a puzzle-like appearance. These cracks express this double contradictory movement between fusion and fission. Formation or decomposition? The enigma remains but the shape holds together, freezing this moment of balance in matter. Inside the concave space left by the adjoining discs, is placed a lighting which lets the light pass through the play of crevices, accentuating the opposition between cohesion and bursting. Heavy with its material by day and light with its light at night, fusion&fissions expresses the rich and complex, even paradoxical, dichotomy that hides between doing and undoing.
Under the aegis of globalization, the great socio-political movements of our time are creating this double trend which both standardizes and brings people together. The question is also philosophical, since erasing the differences has advantages and disadvantages. Can we unite without destroying? Can we gather without stifling details? In a globalizing world, the question is topical. Merge without causing fissions? Perhaps the challenge is impossible, since it opposes two contradictory movements. In any case, the idea can refer to all scales, from the human to the group, from the infinitely small to the infinitely large. It is the timeless and universal dimension of this quote that serves the work, allowing it to grasp this fragile balance in the material.
Tears
Set of small metal sculptures that uses the crack as a symbol of access to intangible reality. The theme of intuition, idea, consciousness or intelligence runs through this series. Via the passage of light through a pierced material, it is the principle of sudden access to an unexpected dimension that is staged. The dimension of accident, rupture, even chance is therefore inherent in this approach where the stability of the material and the coherence of the shape are undermined by an external and unpredictable event. Life, itself probably born of the accident, is also a component of these tears where the sexual dimension hovers implicitly.