Jessica Boubetra French , b. 1989
Les Ordres Hybrides II, 2025
glazed stoneware, lacquered steel
240h x 46w x 46d cm
94.5h × 18.1w × 18.1d in
94.5h × 18.1w × 18.1d in
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Les Orders Hybrides revisits the architectural column, referencing both its structural and decorative roles. Drawing on the codes of classical orders, Doric, Ionic, Corinthian, the series borrows their familiar grammar only to bend it, introducing plant-like and biomorphic...
Les Orders Hybrides revisits the architectural column, referencing both its structural and decorative roles. Drawing on the codes of classical orders, Doric, Ionic, Corinthian, the series borrows their familiar grammar only to bend it, introducing plant-like and biomorphic forms that shift the column toward a more uncertain aesthetic. What once stood for stability, proportion, and grandeur begins to mutate, its authority displaced by materials and processes associated with the present. The column persists and becomes something closer to a totem: an object that signals, gathers, and projects meaning rather than simply holding weight. Its vegetal motifs recall the sculpted flora of ancient temples, where ornament mediated between architecture, myth, and the natural world. That mediation is redirected here toward a speculative register.
The work unsettles the function of decorative roles, positioning it somewhere between inherited pattern and technological fabrication. In doing so, it suggests not a return to classical language, but its reprogramming, and possibly a drift from historical order toward composite forms that are at once organic, technical, and faintly dreamlike.
The work unsettles the function of decorative roles, positioning it somewhere between inherited pattern and technological fabrication. In doing so, it suggests not a return to classical language, but its reprogramming, and possibly a drift from historical order toward composite forms that are at once organic, technical, and faintly dreamlike.
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