VOID
A universal form in the collective unconscious
The shape of the Void goes back to the very first creations of humanity, to the clay ball 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 a universal form in the collective unconscious.
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 AMULETS
Phosphorescent polymer clay
Gold platted brass
Silver
VOID CERAMICS
THE VOID SCULPTURE
Stainless steel. 40x30 cm. Production: Jean Delogu.
THE VOID IN PUBLIC SPACE
A mathematical expression of the unspeakable
Introducing the Void as a universal form in space and time, inventing it, in the archaeological sense
as a forms produced by humans in ancient times.Projet - Sanlitun Soho, Pékin. 2010
3D VOID MODEL Pierre De Brun 2014
VOIDS IN THE LANDSCAPE
Rano Raraku quarry Easter Island. Photo: Yann David
Photo: Maerika Miru
VOID WORKSHOP
Résidence and workshop at the Saint Jacques in Clohars-Carnoët.
Omme #4 (A.P.T.E.)
With Karine Bonneval, Loran Jacob and Diego tampanelli.
April 2023
©Karine Boneval
©Karine Boneval
VOID certificate
VOID WORKSHOP - PÉKIN
VOID HAUS BERLIN 6 month residency, Haus 1, Berlin, 2011
VOID TENTS Exhibition “Kabinettschrank des Doktor W.” , Bar 25, Berlin. 2010
VOID BEAN BAGS
Faux leather.
Kindl Brauerei, Berlin, 2010
Faux leather. Exhibition OMME #4,
Clohars-Carnoët. 2023
VOID BALLOONS
“Trésor” Exhibition, GDK Berlin. 2008