Created for the exhibition Bifurquer, organized by Arts Éphémères at Parc de la Maison Blanche in Marseille.

Blurring the boundary between sculpture, furniture, and monument, this work reimagines the familiar form of a barbecue as a space for reflection and ambiguity. Drawing from constructivist and brutalist architecture—most notably Le Corbusier’s Cité Radieuse—the sculpture establishes both a formal and symbolic dialogue with its urban surroundings.

Cast entirely in concrete, the piece captures a frozen moment of conviviality: a miniature, child-scaled barbecue, its grill adorned with molded forms of garlic and onions. Rendered non-functional, the object becomes a vessel for questioning ideas of use, memory, safety, and transmission. Fire—ordinarily the living core of a barbecue, but here absent due to safety constraints—returns in metaphor.

On the reverse, two bas-reliefs narrate parallel ignitions: one, the fire of intimacy and desire; the other, flames of upheaval and transformation. Together, they expand the sculpture’s poetic reach—bridging the domestic and the monumental, the personal and the political.