Soleil Intime

This work presents rupture not as a disappearance, but as a transformation.

Created from a 90 cm Chinese porcelain vase finished in a deep and luminous oxblood glaze, the piece has been opened to reveal at its core a citrine-colored glass geode, like a nucleus of light long held within the form. The detached shard has been preserved and transformed into a geode in its own right, allowing the rupture to remain fully visible in all its significance.

The work thus unfolds in two presences: the form and its fragment.
The body and what has broken away from it.
Rather than denying one another, they respond and resonate together.

Kintsugi does not seek to correct the wound, but to give it a language. The geode, in turn, introduces the idea of an inner treasure suddenly brought into the light. What was once enclosed becomes visible. What seemed broken reaches a new intensity.

Here, opening becomes an act of revelation.
And the preserved fragment, far from being a remnant, becomes an essential part of the work itself.

Available at Les Galeries Bartoux