Description
With NAKED OBJECTS, Mickael MARTIN is developing a body of work that focuses on exposing the object as form, material and trace. Trained as a designer, then active in the fields of scenography and graphic design, he has long worked on the transformation of spaces and the perception of volumes, questioning the way in which an intervention can reveal or reconfigure an environment.
This shift in focus, from the spatial to the object, is now part of a practice refocused on materials. For the past two years, Mickael MARTIN has been exploring natural materials, in particular hemp-lime, which he has turned from its constructive use into a plastic medium in its own right. Its porosity, lightness and imperfect nature become the vectors of a sensitive formal style. Burnt wood, also present in some of the pieces, introduces a dimension of irreversible transformation, where the surface retains the memory of a gesture and a process.
The exhibition presents a set of stripped-down forms, in which any decorative intention is discarded in favour of a direct reading of the material. The objects do not seek to conceal their manufacture, but rather to expose its tensions, accidents and balances. With this economy of means, each piece stands on the borderline between design and sculpture, between potential use and autonomous presence.
NAKED OBJECTS thus affirms an approach to design as an act of reduction and revelation, where the object becomes a space for dialogue between material, gesture and perception.
Opening Saturday 13 June at 6pm
Organised by Fleurs de Carotte
