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image/svg+xml One is not born a poet one becomes one by embracing chaos and passion Langston Hughes One is not born a poet one becomes one by embracing chaos and passion Langston Hughes
Title
Panser du secret
Date
2021
Materials
Recycled black crystal
Technique
Pâte de verre
Dimensions
Each element: 30 × 30 cm
Context

This installation consists of six sculptural forms corresponding to the letters of the word panser (“to heal”). The shapes originate from a personal alphabet developed through automatic writing, where gestures emerge without conscious control. Displayed on a shelf, the sculptures are accompanied by a text written in their two-dimensional source alphabet on the wall behind them. The phrase—possible, pensable, pansable—plays on linguistic proximity between thinking and healing, suggesting that language itself may be a site of repair. The letters detach from the written page to become autonomous bodies, revealing the hidden gestures from which writing emerges. Exhibition: Un dernier verre — group exhibition — Musée des Beaux-Arts de Nancy — June to October 2021

image/svg+xml One is not born a poet one becomes one by embracing chaos and passion Langston Hughes One is not born a poet one becomes one by embracing chaos and passion Langston Hughes One is not born a poet one becomes one by embracing chaos and passion Langston Hughes One is not born a poet one becomes one by embracing chaos and passion Langston Hughes One is not born a poet one becomes one by embracing chaos and passion Langston Hughes One is not born a poet one becomes one by embracing chaos and passion Langston Hughes
Title
Panser du secret
Date
2021
Materials
Recycled black crystal
Technique
Pâte de verre
Dimensions
Each element: 30 × 30 cm
Context

This installation consists of six sculptural forms corresponding to the letters of the word panser (“to heal”). The shapes originate from a personal alphabet developed through automatic writing, where gestures emerge without conscious control. Displayed on a shelf, the sculptures are accompanied by a text written in their two-dimensional source alphabet on the wall behind them. The phrase—possible, pensable, pansable—plays on linguistic proximity between thinking and healing, suggesting that language itself may be a site of repair. The letters detach from the written page to become autonomous bodies, revealing the hidden gestures from which writing emerges. Exhibition: Un dernier verre — group exhibition — Musée des Beaux-Arts de Nancy — June to October 2021

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