• Dark Romance

Thibault Philip

Dark Romance

Dark Romance is a light sculpture that draws on Art Nouveau and pushes it toward a more radical register. A textured aluminium structure recalls the world of machines, and organic vegetation grows across it, changing how we read the metal beneath. The piece plays on opposites: softness against brutality, growth against rigour, fine detail against raw mass. The result recalls the Art Nouveau fusion of nature and industry, seen through a darker, contemporary lens, and works both as a source of light and as a sculpture in its own right.

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  • Artist

    Thibault Philip

  • Designed

    2026

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    Thibault Philip

    French artist and designer Thibault Philip works across sculpture, installation, and research, exploring the relationships between the living world, traditional craft, and contemporary production.

    A 2021 graduate of the École européenne supérieure d'art de Bretagne, he has exhibited across Europe, Paris, Copenhagen, Milan, Eindhoven, and collaborates with galleries, architects, cultural institutions, and researchers.

    At the centre of his practice is a single material: animal intestines. Revisiting preindustrial techniques through by-products of the meat industry, he allows the material's natural proteins to bind as it dries — a process developed with CNRS researchers — and colours it with natural pigments drawn from ancient textile traditions. The result transforms industrial waste into sculptural forms that reveal the fragile beauty of living matter.

    His work also engages with the stories that shape our relationship with animals and production: drawing on agricultural myths and traditions, it questions the balance between humanity, animality, and the living world.

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