CORSICAN HYBRID SCULPTURE | Amelia Tavella

Amelia Tavella’s architecture is sensual. The material is skin, the light is captured and shaped, passing through the openings: bays, windows, moucharabiehs. Suddenly, we possess the supernatural power to capture the light so dear to the Corsican architect, whose gaze is inspired, saturated.
The lines of his buildings embrace the forms that surround them; they are those of ridges, valleys, scrubland and the maritime world.
Every time, it’s a question of movement, of torsion. The aim is not to bend nature, but to adapt to it, to respect it.
The construction moves, undulates, arches. It is a witness to and mirror of the great landscape it greets. An infinite desire for poetry and beauty. From this desire was born a piece of furniture for a deeply restored private setting in his native Corsica.
« I practice architecture as an art of freedom and constraint. Freedom to create and invent, constraint of space and materials. It’s a balance between two forces that are not adversaries, but that get along and complement each other like Siamese twins. »
This solid oak panel occupies the space, winding its way through it with its dual functions. A seat and a support, the object balances between air and earth. It is simple and spectacular in its construction, with no trace of links, joints or accidents. It seems to stand, to exist in a single line. It hangs with no attachments other than the floor and ceiling above it. It is furniture and sculpture, solid and organic, feminine and masculine, animal and living. It’s captured the space without cluttering it up, like the buildings of the architect-archaeologist who invents without undoing. Here, once again, is the expression of learned delicacy. The object is the child of buildings, schools and convents. It has the texture, the profile that responds to the geography.