Zabo ChabilanD
VOID PROJECT
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
VOID RINGS
VOID WORKSHOP
2023
OMME #4 (APte)
Résidence & workshops, Chapelle Saint Jacques de Clohars Carnoët.
With Karine Bonneval, Laurent Jacob
and Diego Tempanelli
©Karine Boneval
VOID WORKSHOP BEIJIN 2010
VOID CERAMICS
VOID SCULPTURES
Stainless steel
30X20 cm
Fabrication: Jean Delogu
Stainless steel
30X20 cm
Fabrication: Jean Delogu
VOID SCULPTURES FOR THE PUBLIC SPACE
Proposal for Soho China, Sanlitun Soho, Beijin, 2010
Introduire le Void tel une forme universelle dans l’espace et dans le temps, à l’inventer, au sens archéologique du terme, comme ont pu l’être les formes produites par des humains dans des temps reculés. Une expression mathématique de l'indicible.
3D MODEL 2014 Pierre De Brun
VOID IN THE LANDSCAPE
VOID HAUS BERLIN 2011
6 months residency, Haus 1, Berlin
VOID TENT 2010
Exposition “Kabinettschrank des Doktor W.”
Bar 25, Berlin
AN ISLET OF COMFORT
BALLONS VOID 2008
“Trésor” Exhibit, GDK Galerie Berlin.