Landscape Memories
Memory. Anthropocene. Erosion.
Developed during residencies in Puglia, on a coastline marked by erosion and soil instability, the white ceramic sculptures borrow their forms from caves and underground formations, shaped by pressure, erosion, and the slow movement of matter. They are answered by small cavities in white plaster, which hold fragments of embroidered landscapes — an abstract landscape can be glimpsed within.
This mineral whiteness is answered by the fleeting imprint of scent. Each sculpture releases a distinct fragrance — sea, earth, Mediterranean flora — that mingle in the air to form a fourth scent, never fixed, recomposed by the breath and movement of the visitor. Smell becomes a reactivated memory, an invisible archive of what evaporates.
This installation does not depict a figurative landscape, but the sensation of a landscape slipping away: matter in transition, from the solid to the invisible, a sensory documentation of vanishing landscapes.
Landscape Memories does not illustrate. It archives what disappears.
Materials & Processes
Ceramic sculptures — 3D extrusion in white ceramic, with forms inspired by caves and underground formations, developed in partnership with SuperForma srl (Milan).
Plaster cavities — small white cavities containing fragments of embroidered landscapes.
Scent diffusion — three fragrance compositions — sea, earth and Mediterranean flora — developed with Laurène Sourdillon (Givaudan Paris), diffused through the ORB system by Genius Loci.