rocket fabergé
Four winged cherubs, turned into cosmonauts, carry on their backs what resembles a fluorescent warhead tip. Rocket Fabergé belongs to a series of research pieces—alongside Rocket Wallace, PAW, or Vases N°1 and N° 2—that contain a large part of intuition. In retrospect, I consider them my first explorations around ornament, style, and narrative. Rocket Fabergé constitutes one of my earliest rereadings of an ornamental piece.
The project is based on a double displacement. First, a shift in scale, transforming the Fabergé egg into an almost architectural object. Second, a temporal displacement, introducing themes anachronistic to its origins—technology, weaponry, space. This slippage is reinforced by the deliberate choice of non-noble materials: resin filled with marble powder, PMMA, aluminum. Technical, industrial, contemporary materials that contrast with the historical preciousness of the reference object.
The initial gesture is deliberately simple: to “shake” everything and observe what these associations might produce. Through formal analogies—notably between the dome of the egg and that of the warhead—the aim is to subtly shift meaning, creating a playful confusion that invites a smile when the crossing of references becomes clear. Rocket Fabergé explores a gentle rereading of ornament: a way of reactivating inherited forms and putting them back into circulation in the present, without pastiche or mockery.
