Le Capitonné

Le Capitonné is a zellige panel composed in bas-relief of terracotta tiles, its surface transformed by the application of genuine oxidized silver leaf.
Through alchemy, a fluid spiritual and existential change begins with the natural oxidation process, metamorphosing the rigidity of ceramics into a visually fluid, almost textile surface.

The work summons the softness of padded fabric while diverting the material entirely. For here, it is not softness that one touches, but density. Not a textile, but a mineral skin, animated by light and transformation that reveals another layer of the matter.
The surface seems to vibrate, breathe, bear the traces of time — as if each tile retained a glimmer of suspended movement within an intimate transmutation.