What remains of us ©

2026

Some lights come from far beyond.

What Remains of Us began with a collection of historical ornaments I inherited from the workshop of Fabio Da Tos, an Italian artist, sculptor and art restorer originally from Venice, who was once part of my family.

Throughout his life, Fabio worked on the restoration of significant monuments in France, including the Sanctuary of Lourdes and the Place du Capitole in Toulouse.

His workshop preserved molds and fragments taken from churches and historic buildings, some carrying forms that have existed for centuries.

After his premature passing, I kept these fragments for years before eventually beginning to restore them myself.

At first, I saw them almost as relics, traces of a person, a practice and histories that had disappeared. With time, I began to understand that preserving something does not necessarily mean keeping it untouched.

There is no historical logic to this archive. The ornaments belong to different periods, styles and places. Their only connection is Fabio himself.

In the collection, I deliberately preserve this incoherence, accumulating

fragments that were never meant to exist together. Their encounter is anachronistic, almost surreal, yet connected by the trajectory of one person and the traces he left behind.

Rather than reconstructing what once existed, I wanted to confront these fragments with a language they were never intended to inhabit.

The ornaments are integrated into forms sculpted by hand in wax and cast in bronze, where they collide with radical lines, suspended structures and tubes of light. Past and future are not reconciled.

They coexist.

This tension also marks a new chapter for the studio.

Bronze is transformed through pale, almost spectral patinas.

White settles over the surface while polished areas allow the metal beneath to reappear through the relief. The pieces become quieter, more ethereal, almost ghostlike, while retaining the tension and dramatic presence that have always been central to my work.

What Remains of Us is not about nostalgia. It is about what survives

transformation. About the fragments we inherit and what we choose to do with them.

I did not want to reproduce what Fabio had made, nor leave these fragments frozen in the past. I wanted to allow them to continue somewhere else.

To take something that remains, and give it a future.

Objects in “what remains of us” mythology