Black glass objects are shaped after styrofoam pieces found on the coast of Jeju and imprinted from casted black rocks in proximity. Resting on light-boxes remodeled with discarded styrofoam buoys from the island, they bear various forms and transparencies while evoking fossils or precious stones. This work plays with inversion, hybridity, and the inter-translation of materials and color.
The title "polysiren" evokes both polystyrene—the polymer foamed into styrofoam—and mythical sirens, those part-human, part-bird-or-fish monsters. The Song of Polysiren draws inspiration from Alain Resnais' 1959 documentary Le Chant du Styrène, which the French group Pechiney commissioned to celebrate the virtues of plastics.
