Florian Dautcourt

To explore and write narratives of encounters through sculpture, assemblage, and the creation of objects. To attempt to describe how an encounter moves us, how to grasp it, how it passes through us, transforms us, and permeates our existence and our memory. How an encounter shapes the ways we are and experience the world.

In my work, I wish to honor and celebrate the beings that cross our paths and inhabit our journeys: a pebble tucked into a pocket, a hand dipped in lake water, a flower just picked, the movement of a school of fish beneath the water’s surface, a head resting on a shoulder, a conversation on a springtime trail, the landscape blurring and fading in the rearview mirror of a car, stars gathered on the hillside, the sound of mirabelle plums falling onto a blue tarp in summer.

The memory of the encounter then becomes a narrative, inscribing itself and permeating space in a different way, through the construction of a volume, an object, a vessel for memory.

The constructed objects evoke and summon the tenderness of the memories of the encounter, becoming a new space to cherish.

© Portrait by Lucy Flamme