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The student is developing a personal and innovative research about bone deformation and modeling. Through a long chemical process, he converts the shapes of natural bones into abstract and intricate compositions. Depersonalizing to the extreme beings that used to be alive, using death as a pretence to delicate and fine creative works, he confuses the viewer, having him face new and contradictory emotions, between curiosity and disgust, attraction and repulsion… The artist plays on the border between cynicism and irony, in order to create ambivalent works. Reshaped, the animal looses its characteristics and its emotional load as a living being. In the end, only an object, filled with esthetic value, remains. The meaning of objects is thus transferred from a personal feeling towards a visual emotion. These bone works looks like jewelry handicrafts, and, in spite of their smallness, they force the viewer to loose himself between lines, which disappear behind one another, and they indulge him into a contemplative and endless reading. Thus, transformed into a geometric shape, the skeleton, the only thing remaining after a living being or a pet, has passed away, makes us wonder not only about the domestication of bone as a material, but also about the domestication we undergo ourselves, as human beings.

Author

Francois Chaillou , 21 yrs

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