group · 2026

Sainte-Chapelle XIV

Crucifix II and III return to the gesture of Crucifix I¹ (2021). Polymastos is a divine chimera made of animal heads and clusters of breasts. Magdalena is covered by her own hair. The angels descend toward her, part the strands, laugh. Is this a child's game, or something else?

*Magdalena Disvelata, 2026. Ceramic, glazed stoneware, 25.5 × 15 × 7 cm. Photo © Grégory Copitet*

*Crucifix II, 2026. Ceramic, glazed stoneware, 32 × 20 × 9.5 cm. Photo © Grégory Copitet*

*Crucifix III, 2026. Ceramic, glazed stoneware, 32 × 20 × 9.5 cm. Photo © Grégory Copitet*

*Polymastos I, 2026. Ceramic, glazed stoneware, 25.5 × 10 × 6 cm. Photo © Grégory Copitet*

1. As a child, the crucifix everywhere in my grandmother's house stirred a deep ambivalence in me: I was both fascinated and horrified by this brutal representation of suffering, to the point of seeing as demonic a society capable of raising such torture into a symbol of faith. And yet, at my grandmother's death, I felt the instinctive need to shape a crucifix myself, as if to keep a spiritual bond with her — turning, in my work, this historically charged symbol into a point of tension where family memory and ritual meet.

1. As a child, the crucifix everywhere in my grandmother's house stirred a deep ambivalence in me: I was both fascinated and horrified by this brutal representation of suffering, to the point of seeing as demonic a society capable of raising such torture into a symbol of faith. And yet, at my grandmother's death, I felt the instinctive need to shape a crucifix myself, as if to keep a spiritual bond with her — turning, in my work, this historically charged symbol into a point of tension where family memory and ritual meet.