Sculpture La Valse, the power of budding love

THE WALTZ

The first sculpture I dared to show the world, La Valse occupies a singular place in my career.
It was born of a spontaneous impulse, a sensation of inner movement that my hands translated without premeditation. Two forms came together, entwined in a single impulse, like two beings discovering each other and abandoning themselves to a nascent dance.

This sculpture is about love at first sight: that fragile yet powerful moment when everything changes – when two trajectories intertwine, when we move forward together without yet knowing where it will lead.
It captures the moment when encounter becomes movement, when movement becomes dance, when dance becomes promise.

Its supple, almost liquid forms seem to lean on each other. Their slightly inclined verticality gives the sensation of a gliding step, a shared impulse, a mutual trust.
We read in them a tenderness, a joy, a luminous abandon.

A sculpture of shared momentum

Shaped in a dark earth with deep shades and a patina of brown and bronze reflections, La Valse plays with light.
The curves capture the shadows, the hollows reveal a discreet warmth, as if each movement left in the material still contained the echo of a breath.

The two silhouettes are not separate: they support, carry and embrace each other.
They embody unity in the making, that moment when we are not yet “us”, but when something already unites us.
The sculpture does not represent a scene: it expresses a vibration.

The birth of love

In La Valse, I see the power of incipient love – that impulse that precedes words, that even precedes consciousness.
A visceral, intuitive movement that draws two beings into a silent exchange.
There’s nothing spectacular about this dance: it’s intimate, grounded, foundational.
It speaks of what binds, what attracts, what opens.

For me, it remains an essential sculpture: the testimony of a first unveiling, a first exhibition, a first gesture shared with those who would look at my work.
It remains the gentle, vibrant symbol of this audacity: daring to show, daring to love, daring to dance.