Céline Pelcé

Marquetry is the art of assembling materials of different colors,in order to draw a pattern. Employed for wall panels or furniture decoration, marquetry was a storyteller : social, symbolic, religious. It is one of the art crafts that has never been automatized or industrialized. André-Charles is a sugar — named after the French cabinetmaker André-Charles Boulle, observes production systems : it is the serial production of unique caramel panels produced with white industrially refined sugar, thanks to the technic of marquetry.

After the sculptures were exhibited and eaten during the Paris Food Art week, we turned the production into a performance.