the hollow bodies

Hollow bodies are spaces, interstices, reminiscences of architecture, which at the same time suggest and separate us, fragmentary forms, which are missing a part. The relationship to presence is intrinsically linked to the forms of the sculpture, they are not complete, because a presence is missing, the presence that constitutes space according to Ludger Schwarte. For him, all this is an organ that shakes things up on both sides and, by the same token, constantly produces their similarities and their places. He defends the idea of presence, of one and the other activating space by the presence of these two points. It is then as Derrida deduces, that space as khôra, is what gathers and distinguishes. "Hollow bodies" are the synthetic forms of our partitions, the plasterboard, the structures that divide our domestic spaces, which have constituted an ephemeral habitat by their materiality, of a sterile white. All the interiors are homogenised, sets that divide our lives. The hollow bodies are reflections that are extracted, that twist and imitate body shapes; bodies with arms outstretched, bodies enclosed with arms along the trunk, slouching bodies. In these sterile walls, like gangrene, appear and attack these structures, they are casts of a stone constituting a milestone of the Via Julia Augusta, an important Roman road linking Rome to the present Salon-de-Provence. These stones translate a structuring of commercial and military space, and then reappear in these wall fragments, as the past constituting the milestones of a construction, but also all the vernacular constructional past, stereotomy, etc. Stone is a very important element and material in my research. They are ontologically the basis of the shelter and so many other technical beginnings in human history. In these sculptures, a history of architecture and a history of the human being, in his conception of his shelter and his place in a space-place, coexist.