PRIMA DI LASCIARE QUESTA REGALE DIMORA, 2025, mix media, variable size. Group show at DDT project

In 'Transhumance,' an ongoing multidisciplinary project, artist Sébastien Bonin attempts to grasp the persistence of gestures from a rural world he comes from—Savoy—gestures that are 'perhaps not yet entirely gone.' The strength of this approach lies precisely in that nuance. From the encounter Bonin orchestrates between a radically contemporary form and a nearly forgotten gesture, between bronze and an orange peel, a subtle enigma emerges… do gestures have a soul? For if not, what is the point of memory? Here, in the Sicilian countryside, without even realizing it, this is all anyone speaks about…'The rural world occupies a central place in this exploration. It is the setting of a fragile balance between transmission and transformation, between rootedness and change. It is a space where ancestral know-how enters into dialogue with contemporary realities, where everyday objects become markers of a collective history. My works evoke objects and images haunted by their own function and heritage, sketching out a territory where the tangible and the intangible intersect, where the memory of gestures merges with reinvented forms.'