The Evolution of Sculpture: From Matter to Memory.

Sculpture has never stopped evolving. At first, it sought to represent the body, the face, beauty, or power. Then, little by little, it freed itself from simple representation to become a way of questioning our time.

Prune Nourry. Sculpture.

When I look today at young artists working in sculpture, I find this same desire to search for something beyond the material. Contemporary sculpture is no longer limited to marble, bronze, or clay. It can emerge from cardboard, metal, textiles, wax, discarded objects, or even enter into dialogue with photography, video, and performance.

Prune Nourry Sculpteur.

I am thinking in particular of Prune Nourry, whose work demonstrates how sculpture can become a means of reflecting on the body, science, the human condition, and the place of women. Eva Jospin, on the other hand, transforms cardboard and other materials into highly complex imaginary landscapes, somewhere between sculpture, architecture, and installation. On the international scene, Berlinde De Bruyckere explores the vulnerability of the body and the traces of memory through deeply organic forms.

Berlinde de Bruyckere sculpture.

This evolution speaks to me in a particularly personal way because it connects with my own artistic journey.

I have always been fascinated by faces. I began by modelling hundreds of them, because a face never tells just one story. There are expressions, memories, wounds, and personalities. I then discovered in accumulation another way of speaking about the human being.

Eva Jospi sculpteur.

My interest in Arman and Nouveau Réalisme naturally led me towards found and recovered objects. A crushed can, a forgotten object, a small thing discovered in an attic can suddenly take on another existence. I gather them, sort them, transform them, and assemble them to create my Totems.

Perhaps this, ultimately, is the evolution of sculpture: no longer simply creating a form, but giving a new life to what already exists.

The sculpture of tomorrow may be defined less by its material than by the story it tells.

And it is this freedom that I love.

Anmarie Leon Sculpteur

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