Valérie Egée’s sculptural rings jumped out of a tiny little shop’s display window and grabbed me during a walk through the Marais in Paris earlier this month. She makes incredibly artful, one-of-a-kind pieces that are sold exclusively in a small handful of galleries and boutiques. So I decided to give my keyboard to my boyfriend, Matthew McGuinness, another artist, to give his first impressions of her work.
“I would say they are entirely sculptural somewhat referencing architecture (for a finger’s scale). They are also organic and remind me of cocoons and spider eggs and larvae and insects of all kinds. The kind of three dimensional patterns found under bark on tree limbs.
But it’s also science fiction. The pods in ‘Invaders From Mars’ come to mind and those funny creatures from ‘The Simpsons’ who make appearances on Halloween specials.”
And there you have it.
