Rachis de Transflux RT-1 (prothèse pour Plasticus), 2025

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Solid glass, 3D printing, 25 × 70 × 20 cm

This sculpture imagines a prosthesis for a weakened spine, designed for the fictional species Plasticus humanimalia.

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In Plasticus, illness is no longer a condition to be concealed or treated, as in human medical systems, but a source of pride and a potential for evolution. Fragility, mutation, and transformation become markers of identity.

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The prosthesis is therefore anything but discreet: it is displayed, adorned, embellished. It becomes an artifact, an icon, and a sacred extension of a body in transformation.

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Glass - a paradoxical material that is both fragile and immortal becomes a vital extension of this synthetic body, situated between care and fiction, between speculative anatomy and identity ornamentation.

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Its decorative elements draw inspiration from the botanical plates of Plantae selectae.

 

Although scientific in origin, these engravings possess an almost fantastical aesthetic, blending floral and animal forms.

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Blown glass produced with glassblower Guillaume Roux
3D modeling: Robert Hulland

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