Jean-Charles de Quillacq
Adam
Adam is an emblematic work within Jean-Charles de Quillacq’s oeuvre. The artist has created a number of pieces entitled Adam, referring to the original man, incarnated in multiple objects at once. Materially, Adam is a fluorescent yellow walking rope with an epoxy coating on one side, rendering the structure rigid, demonstrative of his sculptural practice, which is conceptual and sensual. The artist describes the object as “something which holds onto desire” as an object that has found a way of expressing itself through the epoxy, “through the carnal relationship which reveals some kind of regressive, oral activity imbued with a sexual value.” The material, subjected to intense physical manipulation becomes a vector for both work and desire where the two become merged and indistinguishable from the product produced.