Omnia vanitas

2022

All is vanity, but not all is meaningless.

Existential questions have always been at the core of my creative process. I constantly return to the same obsessions: death, the passage of time, the elusive meaning of life. OMNIA VANITAS, meaning "All is vanity," is my way of exploring these questions through matter. It is a reflection on the emptiness that underlies existence and on the impermanence of everything we create or treasure. Through this body of work, I wanted to shape objects that are both beautiful and unsettling, objects that speak of presence while hinting at inevitable absence.

I call them Vanities. Each one is crafted in white bronze, a material that resists corrosion yet will eventually bear the marks of time. These objects are mirrors held up to our own mortality, inviting us to question the role objects play in our lives and the traces we leave behind.

This series is part of a long tradition of philosophical Memento Mori. It continues an ancient conversation, one that acknowledges the futility of material wealth and worldly pleasures while celebrating the fragile beauty of existence itself.

OMNIA VANITAS is not a collection of accessories. It is a collection of silences, of echoes, of what remains after the noise has faded.

Objects in “OMNIA VANITAS” mythology