Charlotte Payet, a German-Luxembourgish artist born in 1993 and trained at the Beaux-Arts in Kiel as well as the Bezalel Academy in Jerusalem, creates sculptural works that combine traditional weaving techniques with ecological reflections on the accumulation of plastic waste. For Nature singulière, she presents a monumental installation composed of coloured, recycled PET bottles woven into three-dimensional structures and supported by steel columns. Inspired by the iconic shape of the Coca-Cola bottle—originally modelled on the curves of Mae West, a Hollywood star of the 1930s—the artist questions standardised beauty, mass consumption, and sustainability. By transforming these ephemeral objects into timeless sculptures, she restores both symbolic and aesthetic value to a material often perceived as waste. Her approach, shaped by her experiences collecting in Israel and Luxembourg, seeks to extract plastic from the cycle of consumption and reintegrate it into an artistic narrative. Through this gesture, Charlotte Payet creates a piece in which the lightness of the weave enters into dialogue with the robustness of metal, and the fragility of nature confronts the human footprint.
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