Awaré, France

Strata

2021

Silk pongee, ash tree wood

310 × 300 × 600 mm

A creative response to Strata by Dean Kissick

The sky met the ground in a narrow loop of green containing all of the life they could hear. Above the sky was more earth. Below the ground, more earth. The earth was forever in every direction. Their dimensions were drawn on the walls of their cave. Around the cave was ground, earth, clay eternity. Inside was a void. They were vessels.

Design duo Awaré is formed by French artist Sylvia Eustache Rools and sculptor Jérôme Pereira. Sylvia first trained in textile arts at the Duperré School of Applied Arts in Paris and is fascinated by archaeological and geological phenomena. Jérôme studied physics and geophysics before turning to sculpture. A combination of their scientific background and intuitive, sensorial approach has seen their work exhibited in galleries around the world and win several awards.