Nadia Sculpture - Sculptor, terracotta & bronze
FACES THAT QUESTION OUR CONNECTIONS AND REFLECT OUR OWN INNER SELVES.
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«The sculpture faces out,
gives us to see,
builds the link».»
About
About
"I shape people in clay, our human material, to create a bond. The absence of motion in their presence encourages us to daydream and reminds us of our shared humanity".
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Series and Reveries
I always dig in the same furrows like a farmer working his land. Images that question me all the time, complete imaginations that open up while dialoguing with the material. I give them the name Reveries to honor Gaston Bachelard, who wrote beautifully about how clay can be a source of creativity. These fields of creation become a series, which are constantly pursued. Below are a few of them.
Exile
"My family heritage is forged around exile, the quest for identity, geographical mixing, and the value of multicultural origins. People appear to be like a forest of various tree species, extracted from the same soil, the same earth.
From this earth I mould body envelopes and it is the links between them that I am interested in."
In this earth I mould fleshly envelopes and it's the links between them that interest me.
Icons
"I shape faces as a way of reaching out to others, making them exist, letting them question me".
Are there two of us?
"The body hides as well as it reveals who we are. The face serves as a mirror to view the other as a reflection of ourselves: Am I the same person? Are we two?"
Immortal envelopes
"The ephemerality of memory. The struggle to keep alive images faded by time. A record of what history has made of us. Fragile bronze. Fragments of eternity."
Three Melancholies
"In Mythology, the Three Graces of mythology were the goddesses of charm, beauty, and creativity, both young and naked, and created by men. Leaning over our women's cradles, today's fairies give us absence, memory, and reverie as gifts."
Trophies
"Is the human species recognisable by its mortal envelope? I had fun looking back over the last century.
Trophies of species from the 22nd - 24th centuries, from the antiquities collection of the Xiao Tuang Museum (China)."
