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     MUTE Mute, c’est une plage éloignée du tumulte de la vie quotidienne. Des souvenirs liés aux vacances, à l’enfance, à l’univers familial qui restent gravés en grandissant.  « Mute », c’est aussi en anglais le fait de couper le son, de (se) mettre en sourdine. C’est un rapport particulier au silence : celui qui permet d’observer, de se laisser envahir, de s’exprimer au travers d’un processus indicible. C’est ce silence symbolisé par la photographie d’une anémone sauvage (anemonia viridis) prise sur la Playa del Silencio en Asturies. Un instant suspendu durant lequel la matière s’exprime pour ensuite engager un dialogue visuel...

When I first met Stefania, I knew that one day we would create something together. I was particularly touched by her sensibility and the way she knew how to transpose it through her photographs. She captures the slightest details and the beautiful light atmosphere of her subjects. Stefania immerses you in a completely new world where you can touch, feel, or even taste the image you are dived in. We lose ourselves in this mix of textures and wonder if we have shrunk into a dream or an arthouse film. Last October, I flew to Milan with my Ode collection...

Oddities of rotten elements are a subject I've been exploring since my studies at the Royal Academy of Antwerp. The Ode collection is a continuation of this research, where I bring goldsmith's craftsmanship to art pieces, with a great sense of detail for fashion and design.    _ I see this collection as a celebration of life and time passing. I confront the common aesthetic with beauty sublimated by asymmetry, incomplete forms and ruptures. Harmony and wisdom lie in natural simplicity and spontaneity. Not in the absence of imperfections. I enhance this approach with baroque pearls and textures from dead...

Inspired by the café de flore in Paris, the Saga café awards a literary prize for a first French-language Belgian novel in Liège. From 2015 to 2020, I designed the trophies awarded to the writers. Each time, the theme of the feather has been approached in a different way, while maintaining a minimal, graphic line by working directly on metal.   The metal of choice was brass, but for the 10th edition, a feather was embossed in pure silver.     Pictures by Damien Franchimont

A collaboration project with Fiona Rombaut, Nikam Linova, Babeth Albert & Ana Japson