In Léo Caillard's ongoing Wave Stone series, the oscillating curves of a sine wave become a disfiguring feature. The French artist's sleek renditions of Aphrodite, Laocoön, and Venus, carved in white Carrara marble and stone with green and gray ripples, appear to have warped, glitched, or transformed into a tight spiral. Caillard's work is frequently anachronistic, and he tell that "the face of the statue connects the piece to its reality, a representation of a classical and iconic figure from the past."
Leo Caillard, an artist, plays with our relationship with time. He prompts us to reflect on the present in relation to our past by combining different periods and anachronism.
Inspired by science and contemporary societal concerns, he invites us to take a fresh look at our time, open to history, in order to rethink our future. Leo Caillard was born in 1985 in Paris, France. He is part of a new generation of artists who have been influenced by the significant changes that have occurred since the 2000s, with the advent of the digital age and new societal concerns.
Selena Mattei