Entre-peaux

Five masks, resembling animal trophy heads, made of latex and wax, exist in a liminal space, on the border between the organic and the artificial. The latex evokes skin and flesh, something living yet artificial. The masks are inverted: hollows and bumps reverse as in a mold, accentuating their strange character.
The wax, a material associated with preservation, freezes the forms in an almost cadaverous sheen while simultaneously rendering them fragile, susceptible to melting. It suggests a temporary, unstable, transforming identity.
These figures inhabit the space and enter into a relationship with it. The ensemble creates a contrast between the living and the inert, the real and the false, the hot and the cold, evoking hybrid figures, a ritual or rite of passage, somewhere between an initiatory mask, a sacrifice, an offering, and a relic.

5 sculptures, latex and wax masks. 45 x 30 x 40 cm