Artist Clément Vieille conducts an intricate play with materials in its scenography for the Hermès Watches and Wonders 2023 pavilion, which pays tribute to the complexity of time encapsulated in this year’s Hermès H08 collection.
The collaboration with Hermès is the second for Vieille, who created a structure at the Bâtiment des Forces Motrices for 2021’s remotely held event. Here, he continues to explore the links between materials, research and mechanics in work inspired by the juxtaposition of precision engineering with elegant design. ‘The theme “the finesse of time” led me to think of surfaces, kinds of membranes, both solid and flexible, opaque and translucent, which thanks to their lightness, could be set in motion,’ he tells us.
