Assiettes tuées
The series “Assiettes tuées” references a Mayan funerary rite. The Maya would bury their dead with pierced plates, allowing the soul to more easily leave the body and pass into “the other world,” cleansed of all material possessions. The hole, for the Maya, symbolized a passage—a doorway to the beyond.
More than the theme of death itself, what intrigued the artist in this ritual was the idea of material detachment, as well as the symbolic power of the plate as an object. It encapsulates our daily lives—a duality between the earthly, necessary ritual of eating and our ongoing search for spirituality in these suspended times.
Jesmonite, a limestone-based, non-toxic resin resembling travertine, serves as the medium. It allows the artist to evoke a sense of history, as if the plates were archaeological finds—artifacts unearthed from another time.
