For this project, our approach is not limited to aesthetics: it seeks to give form to absence and memory, to convey an emotion through an experience of the present. This quest finds its essence in the concept of "Coeur humide". The heart, the symbolic seat of affective life—what the Greeks called Thumos—is associated with breath, with life. A “Coeur humide” is, in a way, a breath that sets water in motion. Matter in motion generates waves that appear and disappear like ephemeral traces of the past, loops that repeat infinitely—a heart that never stops beating. This heart is humid because, obviously, there is a notion of sadness.
As the Greek philosopher Thales of Miletus said: "All is water." For him, water is the living matter that animates all things. And we, human beings, are largely composed of it. In a way, we are full of tears. When we cry, our hearts overflow. Yet, the heart is also a metaphor for love, courage, resistance, and action. These 8 “Coeurs humides" thus convey a momentum toward the future: the power to exist, to resist, and to act.
