Back to Paris, I follow this quest to fix the past, working on even more impermanent objects, like crumbled paper. Right after you crease a paper, it unfolds, unwinds, expands, yet nevertheless keeps the trace of its folding. I look for supports, shapes with folds and folds, objects that express time, such as drapes, tree bark: folds in which I engrave words, names, forgotten or eclipsed by our memories.
Traces, imprints, and memory are Zoé Vayssières’s inspiration. She is a French artist and graduate of ENSAD (The National Superior School of Decorative Arts, Paris) with a Master of Arts. Living between Shanghai and Paris, she does bronzed sculptures. She recently received several large-scale outdoor commissions in China, including one from the Jing’an International Sculpture Park (Shanghai). She is the only French female artist represented in the park, and sits among famous artists like Erwin Wurm, Arman or Wim Delvoye.
Zoé collects fleeting and endangered objects, and casts them in bronze to make them timeless. Trained in Art and Typography, her interest also lies in words, quotations and forgotten names, which she engraves upon bronze. The artist combines embedded text and daily objects to question the selection that our collective memory makes.