I am talking about equality and the stories I have never heard (because they did not exist).

At first I just wanted to talk about the humiliating feeling of not being able to get married where I live because… I am gay. The idea of a couple lying under blankets. One cannot tell the gender…

Soon after making a small, simplified model of just one person, I realised that there are thousands of other prejudices, and I started to see myself in their place. Or my own as a Jew, gay and foreigner. This glass covers a photo of myself and makes me really see the ideas I am dealing with.

The shape came to me instinctively: the position of a person lying on their right side, legs and arms very close to the centre. A foetal position. And a lot of emotions came out. During the collapse, the glass embraces the piece with a shape that can recall how a blanket would cover a body, freezing the shape, the contour, the silhouette, like a three-dimensional image of a person, and the transparency shows … that could be anyone, regardless of sex, colour, creed. It is human to be human.

This piece has been shown in various exhibitions and places. The last time was in front of the altar in a Catholic church. It took on a deeper meaning and emotion.

This piece has been included in the catalog „New Glass Review 42“ in 2022 from the Corning Museum

Slumped float glass over photo printed on canvas

Two pieces 200x100x40cm