2013-2014

Métaphormoses refers to the stylistic device of metaphor and Ovid’s poem in which the characters undergo a symbolic transformation allowing them to be transported in allegory beyond a concrete existence.

The drapery caught my attention because of its graphically fascinating potential. I figured out that this feeling came from the ability of this pattern to deploy a wealth of references and conceptualizations. Among these evocations, I noted that of magnificence, of the sacred, the delight of sensuality, or the liquid as a transcendental element like the original matrix.
These evocations have become intuitive through the stylization of fabrics in religious, heroic or mythical scenes throughout the history of art.
Based on this reflection, I modelled the form of the drapery to introduce it into a more down-to-earth setting devoid of mystical or mythical purpose: housing. A secular, sealed and predictable place where the textile is omnipresent but above all functional. The shift produced by the drapery transposed into an ordinary context emphasizes its symbolic capacity. This potential is that of invoking sensations shaped by our common and popular culture of painting and sculpture.

The form of the fabric here liberated from its function metamorphoses into allegories that impose their own semantics on the real. In this photographs, the drapery then becomes like an intermediary around which our deductive and sensitive automatisms are revealed.