B I O G R A P H Y
The cold is biting on this 1987 April day. I find refuge in the gallery of the “Tour des Prisons” in Bern Switzerland while waiting for my appointment. I stroll through the exposition area without paying much attention to the work presented there. One glass sculpture catches the corner of my eye. “Something” happens. I don’t yet realize that, in this precise moment, my life is about to topple over. I exit the gallery in a state of shock. Four years later, I leave Geneva to train as a glassblower in Orrefors Sweden. The place is prestigious. I learn Swedish.
Ten years later, my first personal exhibit entitled “Du verre au cocon” takes place at the Glass Museum in Sars-Poteries in Northern France. The success of the glass cocoon instantaneously takes me from an illustrious unknown to a well-known young glass artist. At the same time I win the Swiss design prize followed by the IKEA foundation prize. Exhibits in the best glass galleries of Europe follow one another. My work sees its way in public and private collections in Geneva, Switzerland and Europe. The road is laid out, the path is lined with gold and yet one dark spot remains: the success makes me prisoner of an unachieved project. Taking a few steps back in order to pursue my research proves necessary. Thanks to the Canton of Neuchâtel I benefit of a six month artist residency in New York followed by eight months in Paris. There, I dream of an utopian ninety-story cocoon building.
Twenty years later, the initial discovery of the sculpture “Large bowl for gathering light” from Stephen Procter at the “Tour des Prisons” in Bern has been assimilated, whereas the shockwave continues to spread. Today, free from the constraints of a studio, my work can finally begin.
