Artwork description: Biomorphose consists of blown-glass forms drawing on anatomy and plant life to imagine speculative organisms in a state of constant transformation.
Artwork description long: The inside of the body is both what is most intimate and what we share most universally. By blowing glass, I make breathing, an act both vital and unconscious, visible: the air from my lungs enters the molten material and transforms it. Breath thus becomes a movement of passage, through which something internal projects outward and acts upon the material. This transformation lies at the heart of my practice: under the action of the body, matter transforms and comes alive. At what point does it cease to appear inert and begin to seem alive? Through Biomorphose, I explore this zone of uncertainty, where matter transforms, organizes itself, and appears to develop its own mechanisms. I call this process Biomorphose: the gradual transformation of a material, structure, or form as it takes on characteristics associated with living things, blurring the boundaries between matter, plant life, and organism. The installation imagines a speculative ecosystem in which structures inspired by orchids and human anatomy appear to grow, alter, and hybridize through the transformation of silica, the main component of glass. Water, circulating throughout the installation, acts as a driving force: it connects, activates, and brings the different entities to life. Tubes, reservoirs, and conduits borrowed from the language of scientific glassware become the circulatory systems of constantly mutating organisms. Through Biomorphose, I question the moment when matter becomes alive, and how far an organism can transform while remaining recognizable. Glass becomes a means of revealing the inside, transforming the invisible matter that composes us all.
Artwork description long: The inside of the body is both what is most intimate and what we share most universally. By blowing glass, I make breathing, an act both vital and unconscious, visible: the air from my lungs enters the molten material and transforms it. Breath thus becomes a movement of passage, through which something internal projects outward and acts upon the material. This transformation lies at the heart of my practice: under the action of the body, matter transforms and comes alive. At what point does it cease to appear inert and begin to seem alive? Through Biomorphose, I explore this zone of uncertainty, where matter transforms, organizes itself, and appears to develop its own mechanisms. I call this process Biomorphose: the gradual transformation of a material, structure, or form as it takes on characteristics associated with living things, blurring the boundaries between matter, plant life, and organism. The installation imagines a speculative ecosystem in which structures inspired by orchids and human anatomy appear to grow, alter, and hybridize through the transformation of silica, the main component of glass. Water, circulating throughout the installation, acts as a driving force: it connects, activates, and brings the different entities to life. Tubes, reservoirs, and conduits borrowed from the language of scientific glassware become the circulatory systems of constantly mutating organisms. Through Biomorphose, I question the moment when matter becomes alive, and how far an organism can transform while remaining recognizable. Glass becomes a means of revealing the inside, transforming the invisible matter that composes us all.