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Tridacna gigas, water, Indian ink, column of stones, sound device, 70x40x110 cm, 2024

A tridacna gigas, better known as a stoup, is installed on a stone column. A huge open shell, like a hand with alabaster fingers, it contains a dark liquid which reflects, like a black mirror, the space around it. If placed directly opposite, the black water remains blind, our movements playing with the axis of light allow us to perceive a piece of architecture on its surface. To the rhythm of a double pulsation, the reflection folds and is deformed by concentric waves which, like the beats of a submerged heart, give a form of existence to this limestone being.