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VOID PROJECT
2004-
 
                                                                                                     






                     
The shape of the Void goes back to the very first creations of humanity, to the ball of clay found in ancient cultures.
Sometimes, in the absence of an immediate link between our hands and our thoughts, our fingers have a tendency to act freely, to seize a malleable material (wax, bread crumbs, clay, paper etc...) in order to knead it with the thumbs and the index fingers and to make it roll on itself with the flat of the hand in a rotating movement. The ball thus formed, evolves most often to occupy the volume of empty space between four fingers. The fingers naturally become the mold and the energy is then materialized in a recurring and liberating form. The sphere mutates into a smooth and curved tetrahedron, almost identical in all hands. In an equally unconscious way, a new movement of the fingers generally transforms this tetrahedron into a mathematical figure as "primary" as the sphere: a cube. This primal gesture combines the opposites: the unconscious and mathematics and independent of individuality, it refers to interiority. It is the transitory and complex form of the tetrahedron, hidden by the fingers that we seek to make emerge, "to bring to the surface".

I present the void shape through different materials (ceramic, bronze, silver, stainless steel, fabrics) and organize workshops in which I invite participants to make Voids, to bring this form to the level of their consciousness. Via forms in several languages, I collect testimonies from people of different cultures on their experience  with the void shape. I thus list the variations in the materials used, the circumstances in which they manifest themselves and the traces they leave in the memory.




 

VOID AMULETTES


Polymer clay      
Sterling silver
Sterling silver
Gold platted brass
Sterling silver

VOID RINGS  



Sterling silver, brass.


VOID WORKSHOP  

OMME #4 (APte)  
Residency & workshop , Chapelle Saint Jacques, Clohars Carnoët.  
With Karine Bonneval, Laurent Jacob and Diego Tempanelli.  2023



 
©Karine Boneval

VOID WORKSHOP BEIJIN
2010  







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VOID CERTIFICATE









VOID CERAMICS







VOID STAINLESS STEAL SCULPTURES
30X20 cm  Fabrication: Jean Delogu. 2006  









VOID SCULPTURES FOR THE PUBLIC SPACE
Proposal for Soho China, Sanlitun Soho, Beijin, 2010

To introduce the Void as a universal form in space and time, to invent it, in the archaeological sense of the term, in the same way that forms produced by humans in remote times were invented. A mathematical expression of the unspeakable.







3D MODEL  2014  Pierre De Brun


 







VOID  IN THE LANDSCAPE


Rano Raraku Quarry (montage). Photo: Yann David
Photo: Maerika Miru



VOID HAUS BERLIN 2011
6 months residency, Haus 1, Berlin  




















































VOID TENT
“Kabinettschrank des Doktor W.”  
Bar 25, Berlin. 2010  











AN ISLET OF COMFORT  

 
VOID 40 L.  La Ciotat, 2018
VOID 2500 L. Kindl Brauerei, Berlin, 2010
VOID 2500 L. Kindl Brauerei, Berlin, 2010

VOID 40 L Simili cuir. 2020                                            








VOID 20L. Simili cuir. 2023
VOID 40 L. Rio de Janeiro, 2008



BALLONS  
VOID  
2008


“Trésor” Exhibit, GDK Galerie Berlin.





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