Within Corine Borgnet’s body of work, The Skin-Carrier (Porte-peau) holds a singular place—resistant to affiliation, irreducible to any category. And yet, it is perhaps one of the most powerful pieces the artist has created, born more from an instinctive creative impulse than from deliberate intent.
The story—its beginning and its end—unfolds like a twisting narrative, a novel, a tragic epic. But The Skin-Carrier is no Phoenix; it never rose again as it once was, unchanged from its successive ashes.
Its shifting forms over time—sculpture, ritual object, performance piece, video, relic—make it not so much a series of resurrections as the living expression of the persistence that the artist embodies—and must embody.
Up to the final destruction of The Skin-Carrier, Corine Borgnet remains unwavering. She refuses resignation, resisting the erasure of her work by transmuting it—again and again—into a final act of creation.
Marie Deparis-Yafil
