Bardo

Bardo – 2024
Glazed ceramic, variable dimensions

This ceramic work is inspired by the shapes and sinuosity of a mosaic the artist came across at the Musée National du Bardo in Tunis. It is an abstract mosaic whose pattern emulates the shapes of the sea. It belongs to a group of representations of the titan Ocean, which in ancient times personified all bodies of salt water, including the Mediterranean Sea. It is a reproduction of a representation of the sea made in Tunisia in antiquity, probably in the 3rd century AD. The exceptionality of these abstract decorations, the fact that they have a greater autonomy from the standards of the time, is due to the fact that they were developed far from the central power of Rome.
Fragmentation and repetition serve here to make us look at the sea from a very different, poetic and critical point of view, which refers to the human borders imposed on a medium in constant fluidity.
A gaze that points to the fragmentation and sum of uniquenesses of the Mediterranean in contrast to the unitary and Eurocentric image of the Mare Nostrum.