Steel wicker holy water font by Clara Denidet

Holy water font made of wickerwork from steel wire, handcrafted by Clara Denidet.

Unique piece, 2024.

Born in 1991 in Cosne sur Loire, Clara Denidet lives and works in Puisaye.

"The interest I take in what the object says teaches me things.
It is a form of decentered attention that is applied to uncovering this capacity to "make do".
Far from being a resigned outcome, the act of composing, of tinkering, has something magical about it*.
When it is used to do what it was not intended to do, to be what it is not, when it becomes a symbol, a tool, a language or a witness, when it is transmitted, used, transformed, the object is a hold.
Examining the object closely is a discreet way to study its users.
Faced with chaos, each of us deploys a multitude of daily tactics, habits, and rituals that form the basis of our ways of inhabiting an environment. (Building a solid framework includes "touching wood.")
My work is as much about anthropological research as it is about empirical experimentation.
I am looking for ways to access these internal and collective forms of knowledge in the coexistence of these two fields, knowledge that resides in the use of language, objects, and everyday life…
Those who learn and create themselves. The ordinary world, microhistory, becomes a field of research where intuition becomes a measuring tool, art an exact science. It is also about presuming connections between things, betting on their echoes as one might try casting spells.

* Art lies halfway between scientific knowledge and mythical or magical thought;
because everyone knows that the artist is both a scholar and a craftsman: with artisanal means, he makes a material object which is at the same time an object of knowledge.
Claude Levi-Strauss, The Savage Mind, 1962

Dimensions: 22 cm x 22 cm
Material: Steel wire wickerwork

€750,00