Sensitive skin

Sensitive Skin is a multidisciplinary installation that brings together sculptures and ceramics within a single space. This project offers a reflection on the relationship between the body and its urban environment, focusing in particular on public space as a site of experience, tension, and projection. Through this research, I approach the urban environment as an active territory, one that can be occupied, transformed, and reinterpreted. The body moves within it as a sensitive element both vulnerable and capable of action. Through the lens of material and object, I explore the possibility of public space as a creative playground: a place where imagination, gesture, and subjectivity can generate new forms of presence. The project revolves around several questions: what impact can we have on the outside world? How is the dialogue constructed between our inner self and what surrounds us? In what ways does the urban environment shape our bodies, behaviors, and perceptions? I approach public space through a sensitive and embodied perspective. My process is rooted in observation, wandering, and collection. Scraps recovered from construction sites or streets after often ephemeral use are incorporated into the installation and set in relation to works meticulously crafted by hand over several months. This juxtaposition materializes the encounter of different temporalities: the rapid, functional pace of urban and industrial life, and the slower, introspective, attentive rhythm of artisanal work and the creative body. The tension between materials forms a central axis of the project. The fragility of real or suggested skin confronts the roughness of concrete, the coldness of rusted metal, and the hardness of industrial surfaces. This formal and tactile contrast questions our place in the city, and more specifically, that of women. Is public space designed for their safety, freedom of movement, and well-being? Or does it remain a territory largely structured by logics of domination and exclusion? The combination of raw, industrial materials with more precious ones such as the platinum that covers the piece Totem Vivant introduces a dimension of care and symbolic repair. The act of covering, protective and luminous, suggests the possibility of a more welcoming, desirable environment, better attuned to the needs of living beings. It expresses a desire to reconcile the body with the city, between vulnerability and resilience. Sensitive Skin thus situates itself within an artistic approach grounded in sensory experience, attentiveness to context, and material transformation. The project emphasizes the need for the body to reconnect with its environment, proposing public space not merely as a place of circulation and constraint, but as a potential space of care, gentleness, and reclamation.