The Source

Duo show with the artist Germain Marguillard, DOC, Paris.

The Source is made of two fountains in wood, steel and ceramic. Shaped in black stoneware, the sculptures nested within form a dark bark whose skin recalls both a rocky surface and shreds of body. They are covered in nipple shapes from which water springs before flowing into basins. In the manner of a mausoleum, they pay homage to goddesses and saints such as Saint Julia of Corsica, martyr with mutilated breasts, whose spring is said to ensure the fertility of women. Here the flesh of the saint resembles the earth's crust, holding within its breast the groundwater that ensures human life.