MIMÉTISME INTERROMPUE / MIMETISM INTERRUPTED

2024

Bronze - Black Patina

Length 24cm x Width 13cm x Height 55cm

Two almost identical flame-like shapes surge upwards, forming an almost impenetrable shield. Allowing light and shadows to seep unto the surface, a vertical crescent tears through the upright forms, highlighting their differences and pointing to their vulnerability. The bronze sculpture, patinaed a soft black, stresses the fragility of personal identity and explores a sense of isolation, even in perfect mimesis. As if caressed back to its original state overtime, a thin, golden outline contrasts with the matte surface of the bronze, creating a halo which is nothing but hope, the light calling for expansion into the space beyond. The finely textured surface of the shield, hammered and bend to obtain a slightly convex shape able to protect the one behind, suggesting it without exposing it, echoes the artist’s evolution towards a separation of self from an indisputable nucleus. The emergence of a separate entity, similar in nature, but nonetheless distinguishable from the other, speaks of an evolutionary process, which resolution hints at freedom. Spiritually, MIMETISM INTERRUPTED alludes to the twin phenomenon of Geminis, identical but separate, indivisible yet independent, intimate echoes of one another, but whose only function in the end is to find its own authentic self.