Metávasi is a luminous totem printed in 3D with a biomaterial based on corn starch, wheat and scallops from the Normandy restaurant reuse sector (recyclable material in industrial composting produced by the Francofil company). It was born from the collaboration with my partner Damien Scwhed, interior designer of the Bati Bati architecture agency, as part of the "Mer solidaire" project in Marseille, organized by Le Réseau le bunker des calanques, SOS Méditérrannée and their partners: l'Étude De Baecque & associés, le Curiosity club, la librairie Mima and la Dame bleue.

Mer solidaire is a 3-month collaborative creative process during which 53 creators from the South. artists, designers, and craftsmen created 47 objects, individual or collective, from the committed and poetic texts of Marielle Macé. This process resulted in a solidarity auction of these unpublished works, for the benefit of SOS MÉDITERRANÉE, on Tuesday, September 17, at the Etude De Baecque et Associés in Marseille.

〰️ "Metávasi" means "Transition" in Greek. It embodies through matter a change of state, whether physical, mental and/or geographical... a transition from a heavy, tortured, dark space to a lighter, softer, brighter space. It symbolizes an opening towards hope, a passage from the unbreathable to the breathable. The base begins with an undulating movement inspired by the waves of the sea and is covered with a rough, striated texture similar to an aggregate of sand, scallops and water, as if a storm had come to stir these three elements to make a new material. The more the totem stretches upwards, the more the material and shapes become smooth and calm, like a cloudless sky. It is composed of 11 modules that screw together.

It is inspired by a sentence by Marielle Macé in her book "Respire": "Inspire, hope: this is to say that in breathing there is the air that we receive and the hope that comes from it, that should come from it. A welcome and a future, a call and a deliverance, under the wind of words."

As a couple since we met at the interior design school, we know that our creative and artistic approach is complementary. We increasingly want our actions to have meaning and to have a positive impact on society, people, the environment. We do not understand the fear of others, especially if they come from elsewhere. The work of SOS Méditerranée, as well as the story of the people who cross this sea at the risk of their lives guided by the hope of a more breathable daily life, motivated us to create a joint work.