Anaïs Hermitte Robinson

Born in Biot in 1986
Lives and works in Biot, France

Elemental mutations
In Anaïs Hermitte Robinson's sculptures, the different states of matter seem to hark back to the origins of creation and art. " Painters never do anything but paint the world before the world was born", as Deleuze explained in his teachings, referring to this movement, this struggle led by artists to create an architecture of new forms out of chaos, out of the abyss.

Born in Biot in 1986 and a graduate of Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design in London, Anaïs Hermitte Robinson first worked with Nicolas Ghesquière and Balenciaga, before returning to her native village to devote herself to contemporary glass creation. Using glass scraps from the Pierini workshop in Biot, she developed her first works, initially working four-handed with Antoine and Robert Pierini, then solo. In her experimental approach, Anaïs Hermitte Robinson precipitates encounters between molten metal and glass, to reveal the changing instant. Drawing on an imaginary world that includes Eva Hesse's shapeless organic networks and Tomás Saraceno's intricately arranged arachnid webs, she unleashes metal webs hooked into glass, like dreamcatchers in the light of dreams. And as these wefts stretch and distend, the glass becomes as invisible as the air. As with the proliferation of moss in a pond, or pollen grains observed under a microscope, these elemental sculptures bring us face to face with the poetry of that which always eludes us.