… Le Temps Suspendu

Photos (left) Sandra Pointet, (right) Baptiste Coulon

Grasp
tin, silver, brass 

Photo Baptiste Coulon

Legacy
brass, silver 

Photo Baptiste Coulon

untitle, (Laboratoire de Cupidon)
brass silver plated, remanium, silver

Photo Aline D’Auria

Handle I
pewter, silver

Handle II
pewter, silver

Le temps perdu 10.92
lots&found objects

Le temps perdu, keys
lost&found objects

Le temps perdu
lost&found objects (technical realization: Charlotte Cochet)

untitle
brooch, pewter, remanium, silver

photo Aline D’Auria
Le temps suspendu

Stop Time
Installation Caroline Van Hoek Gallery, Brussels, 2011

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STOP TIME – Le Temps Suspendu is a collection of jewellery and objects which has been shown April 2011 at Caroline Van Hoek Gallery.
For this series, I worked with all kind of metals employing a whole range of grey : tin, gold, silver, stainless steel, iron, pewter…
I found pewter-wares eerily beautiful. They are objects which remain in families through the generations and yet nobody ever uses them. One receives them on special occasions, like religious fests or to commemorate a sport victory. They become some kind of relic: “This is the jar we received when I married you great uncle…” Very simply, I wanted to create new love stories with and for those objects.
Le Temps Perdu  is a series of bracelet-watches. The watch’s movement is replaced by found objects, which are traces of specific moments, the instance when the object was lost and when I found it.
In this collection, I try to grasp a precise moment in life, to stop time, to make it stand still.