Artist Statement — Scar-cériaux
Scar-cériaux’s work begins with what refuses to settle. It emerges from emotional and social tensions — moments of anger, silence, loss, or unease that demand a physical presence.
Working through objects and installations, Scar-cériaux often starts from forms that carry a functional memory. Function is not denied, but displaced: sometimes preserved, sometimes suspended, sometimes pushed to its limits. What matters is not usefulness, but how an object occupies space and how it is encountered.
The materials tend toward the industrial — glass, metal, and other hard, cold surfaces that hold weight and resistance. Within these materials, fragility is never far away. Reflection plays a central role in this language. Reflective surfaces confront the viewer directly, while reflection also operates as a mental condition — a pause, a friction, a moment of self-awareness.
The name Scar-cériaux refers to the scar: a trace left by impact rather than an open wound. Scars mark what has passed through the body and remained. They do not disappear; they register time. As this name is also the artist’s surname, the work remains inseparable from personal history. Each piece functions as a scar — a quiet remainder of contact, pressure, and transformation.
Scar-cériaux is not interested in resolution or comfort. The work holds space for confrontation, for stillness, and for the uncertainty that emerges when material, body, and memory meet.
