Suture - How To Fix the Seashell

How To Fix The Seashell stages a reparation of a decadent mid 19th century villa limestone staircase. Limestone is a typical material of Marseille, partly composed of shell fragments it has a crumbly surface and is not among the most solid rocks. Without proper maintenance, it will fracture over time.

Suture - How To Fix The Seashell is an installation part of the sculpture series Suture: a project that questions the footprints of time on man-made environments. While creating an interdependent dialogue between architectural marks and their contexts, Suture empowers the adjoining environment, making it an integral part of the medium.

Reclaimed tin is used instead of newly extracted material, carrying a history made of previous uses. Through a potentially endless circular process of melting and solidification, it is shaped from setting to setting. Processed in a reversible way, the day Suture eventually loses its installation character, it will immediately become usable for new needs: "Nothing is created, nothing is destroyed, everything is transformed" principle of mass conservation or Lavoisier's law, 1789.