Lucernelle, 2024

Molded from earthenware and some from porcelain. The former finished and decorated with smoking technique, wax and bitumen, firing 950°C. The latter with crystalline and copper oxide, firing 1250°C.

I have reproduced some oil lamps from the Roman period, 1st century AD. Some with figured disk and short spout, others with scrolls and angular spout. Last a modern oil lamp, round with porcelain beaded decoration.
The installation takes its cue from the "Rite of the Lucernelle" and sees positioned the "ancient" isosceles triangle oil lamps symbolizing fire, with the modern, white round one in the center, where the circle is a symbol of perfection, of that which has no beginning and no end and represents cyclical time.