Everyday objects constantly find their way into my work. I conceive of them as surreal forms, both sculptural and symbolic, and I enjoy rediscovering them at their most extreme. Trained as a designer, I consider the object, like the image, to be an alter ego of certain facets of our consciousness. I explore this duality: on one hand, the everyday object, responding to a human necessity; on the other, the object as an artistic question, a mirror of our condition. This tension between utility and revelation lies at the core of my work.
This piece is a marble maquette of Sanitary Chair, a full-scale work on which it is possible to sit. Reproducing an existing work in marble is a way of rediscovering it, of understanding it as though I were making its portrait. The original work questions the status of form and object in the mind of the user by placing, within the same gaze, a monumental seat and a sanitary pad.
Here, the change in scale profoundly alters our perception. Rather than a surreal chair, what emerges is the image of a sanitary pad transformed into a marble reef. The work becomes the witness, a small, useless monument, to an object destined to disappear after only a few hours of use. What was disposable becomes enduring; what belonged to the realm of taboo becomes visible; what discreetly supported the body becomes the subject of contemplation.
This maquette offers a quiet reading of the original work.
