CAMILLE GOUVINE

It is like an open shell that its owner would have abandoned. It is also a structure with geometric and calculated shapes. Both inspired by organic and architectural forms, this project addresses issues related to our intimate environment and space that we share with others. Both in our body and in our contemporary habitat, the boundary between the private sphere and the public sphere remains a fuzzy and complex space ; with this structure, I try to represent this porosity. The different mirrors that sprinkle its surface further blur the boundary between the inside and the outside of the wooden shell.

It is the presence of the other seeing that we see, hearing what we hear, which assures us of the reality of the world and of ourselves ; and if the intimacy of a fully developed private life [...] must always intensify and enrich the range of subjective emotions and private feelings, this intensification will always be at the expense of the certainty of the reality of the world and of men².

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2.  Hannah Arendt, « The Public Realm, the Common », The human condition, Gallimard, 2012, p 99.

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