Sèves brutes (Raw Saps) Past

Our common blood, reflections on what flows through un in three tenses : before

Sèves Brutes – Past – Fossil 5-3 by night
Flow of glass on branches, bark and symbolic writings 61 x 56 x 10 cm | Ecclesiastes Chapter 1 verse 6: To go south and describe its curve to the north; the wind progresses while always evolving and passes by the same circuits
Sèves Brutes – Past – Fossil 5-3 by night

It would be a journey where time would be visible, an immense but elusive future in the installation of a Chateau, apprehensible but overflowing in the present of a gallery and finally very concentrated for a past that must be unearthed in a museum.

It would be a story without beginning or end, a story of time and encounters, encounters between people, interior encounters, encounters with emotions as well. Juxtaposed and correlated encounters and sometimes as intangible as they are essential …

Fossil 1-2 detail
Flow of glass on branches, bark and symbolic writings - 56 x 61 x 10cm
Fossil 1-2 detail
Fossil 1-2 detail
Flow of glass on branches, bark and symbolic writings
Fossil 1-2 detail
Fossile-3-1 in the flow
Fossile-3-1 in the flow
Seves Brutes (Raw Saps) - Past - Fossil 1-2
2018 reactivated 2021 Branch, glass, gauze and red thread, reactivated in 2020 on brass base | 57 x 51 x 7 cm | Ecclesiastes Chapter 1 verse 7 All rivers go to the sea, and the sea is not filled with them; towards the place which is assigned to the rivers, they invariably direct their course
Seves Brutes (Raw Saps) - Past - Fossil 1-2

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The museum is the place to take a step back, question and put into perspective. Whether we take the wine or the work, they are put here in contexts that go beyond the context of those who produced them, created them, there is extrapolation from the traces. All the more so in a museum of decorative arts and design where we show the beautiful, the useful, the envelope, He speaks in hollow of what had been contained there. It is therefore the place of the past but also of fruitful inspiration.

Seves Brutes past Fossil 3-1 on a rainy day
Flow of glass on branches, bark and symbolic writings 65 x 60 x 8 cm - Ecclesiastes Chapter 1 verse 8 All things are always in motion; no one is able to account for it. The eye never gets tired of seeing, nor the ear tires of hearing.
Seves Brutes past Fossil 3-1 on a rainy day
Seves Brutes (Raw Saps) - Past - Fossil 5-3 and a visitor
2018-2021 Branch, glass, gauze and red thread reactivated in 2021 on a brass base
61 x 56 x 10 cm
Seves Brutes (Raw Saps) - Past - Fossil 5-3 and a visitor
Imaginary topography
2018 digital drawing, reinventing the topography of places of time where fossils were not.
Sèves Brutes – Past – Imaginary topography MADD Bordeaux