NES - Darklight 15-Sculpture Lumineuse

Darklight #15

-(12x12x29.5 cm)-

Luminous sculpture

2025

Weight: 4.2 kg
Unique signed piece
Steel
Varnished sculpture

Delivered without bulb (E14)
Contemporary design. Luminous sculpture. Unique work signed by the artist NES, a French sculptor working in metal.
Delivered with invoice and certificate of authenticity.
Emits a warm ambient light.
Like-new condition
Equipped with a black E14 socket, standard socket
1.5 m black cord with on/off switch on the cord. Delivered without bulb

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Background

Nes is a Bordeaux-based artist living in the Médoc. Born in 1979. A metal designer, she creates sculptures and furniture from recovered metal pieces. Her work has a strong presence and a clear identity drawn from a baroque universe, heavily inspired by punk iconography.
Very early, this young woman pursued artistic creation. In 2003, while completing her university studies with a degree in Applied Foreign Languages, she discovered metalworking on a trip to Cuba. This discovery, which she experienced as a true revelation, led her to change her studies. She undertook a qualifying course in metallurgy at IFIP in 2004, then in 2006 specialized as an industrial and space‑oriented welding technician. While continuing to explore contemporary art independently, she completed her training by becoming a qualified pyrotechnician in 2008.
Her works quickly drew the attention of the art world, standing out through strong singularity and earning several articles in the press (see press kit). In 2007 she won a Young Challenge, a program established by the Ministry of Youth. For her, it was a real catalyst propelling her toward professionalism. Since then she has been regularly solicited at regional, national, and international levels. In 2009 she represented France in the International Francophonie Games competition and exhibited at the UNESCO Palace in Beirut. In 2010, she was invited to UNESCO in Paris to present her work in a solo show. As a national winner of the Envie d’Agir program, she received the 2nd prize in cultural creation awarded by the High Commissioner for Youth. Regionally, in Aquitaine and Charente, she received the 2nd prize for Rotary District 1690 art design.
Drouot appraisal during the public auction “Young Contemporary Creation” (March 22, 2014, Hôtel Drouot, Paris).

Artistic approach

“At age five, I visited with my parents the torture museum of the Inquisition in Santillana del Mar. The capacity of humans to make others suffer both horrified and fascinated me. I was frightened by the ingenuity with which man devised so much monstrosity. My work transcends this monstrosity by presenting a softness that hides humanity’s violence within. I want to show the dark side of humanity, the human experience of suffering, the capacity for a person to conceal the horror deep inside, to highlight the passage from shadow to light.”
By releasing her gesture, Nes reveals through her sculptures a baroque and poetic universe. She draws on the strength of metal to lead the spectator into her world of arabesques, curves, and chains. Power in the material, fragility in the airy forms emerging from a complex imagination. From darkness to light, from chain to lace of steel…
A baroque universe, another more playful one, both converge toward the same goal: to give a soul back to forgotten industrial elements. Playing with appearances, shadows, light, and contrasts, treating hostile materials until they are guided artistically toward gentleness and lightness. Her artistic signature, expressed through the use of chainsaw chains, earned her the media nickname “the iron lacemaker.” Ambivalence between form and matter, subtlety of plastic language, repurposing of materials.
“The questions that guide me: how to exercise discernment and live in society while considering that everyone may have a part of monstrosity within themselves? What are the limits of humanity’s extreme behaviors? How to detach from daily reality, from the illusions of our perception, to ease this suffering, to stop hiding this dark part of ourselves? How to free oneself from prejudices and challenge appearances? How to live with this dark side of the soul? Meditate, accept, deny, rebel, renounce?”

Selected exhibitions

Exhibition “Resonances” for the 500th anniversary of Sainte-Chapelle and artist residence (09/09–06/11/21; residence: 21–25/09/21, Le Trampoline, Vic-le-Comte, France)
Exhibition and selection at the “3rd International Sculpture Competition” of the Biennale Europea d’Arte Fabbrile di Stia (02/09–05/09/21, Stia, Italy)
International symposium “Metal sympozium” and exhibition on the “Metal Trail” (11/06/18–15/06/18, Mlada Boleslav, Central Bohemia, Czech Republic)
Exhibition during the 2018 SNBA Fine Arts Fair (13/12–16/12/18, Carrousel du Louvre, Paris)
Exhibition “Arts du feu” at the H.R. GIGER Museum (17/10–23/10/15, Gruyères, Switzerland)
Capa Esculturas gallery exhibition (12/09–21/10/2014, Madrid, Spain)
Exhibition “Pas à pas” (09/05–09/06/14, LOUVEIGNÉ, Belgium)
Exhibition at the “Feria Internacional del Arte de Granada” (07/05–12/05/12, Churriana de la Vega, Granada, Spain)
Exhibition at “FIARTE 2012” (08/04–20/04/12, Churriana de la Vega, Granada, Spain)
Exhibition at the “Salón Internacional de Mujeres Artistas” (06/03–22/03/12, Maracena, Granada, Spain)
Permanent sculpture exhibition “Carpe Diem”: private collection at the Riviera Hotel & Beach Lounge (from 14/05/11, Corniche El Manara, P.O.Box: 11-4021 Riad El Solh 1107 2150, Beirut, Lebanon)
Exhibition of fresh works created during the “Riviera Fusion” art symposium (12/05–30/06/11, Riviera Hotel & Beach Lounge, Beirut, Lebanon)
Exhibition and selection for the International Francophonie Games competition. Residence. Intervention in a school in Saïda (09/27/09–10/06/09, UNESCO Palace, Beirut, Lebanon)
Permanent exhibition of the sculpture “Pulsations and Convergences”: private collection at the Grand Lycée Franco-Libanese (from 10/06/09, Beirut, Lebanon)

Public commissions / Public collections

Public commission from the town hall of Lacanau: monumental sculpture “Fòrga” created in homage to the heritage site “La Forge” – Permanent exhibition in front of the town hall (07/24, Lacanau, France)
Commission from the Interregional Directorate for Judicial Youth Protection (DIRPJJ) – South-West (Trophies for the “Parcours du goût” - many small dimensions listed) (07/23)
Acquisition of the sculpture “La Force d’âme” by the town hall of Vic-le-Comte and the Departmental Council of Puy-de-Dôme (Le Trampoline, place de l’Olme, Vic-le-Comte) (11/13/21)
Acquisition of the sculpture “Thétis” by the Departmental Council of Charente-Maritime (Atrium of the Charente House, La Rochelle) (08/20/18)
Acquisition of the sculpture “The Dark Tower” by the town of Aiguillon (47) (12/10/16)
Acquisition of the sculpture “Les Trois Portes” by the Beychac et Cailleau media library/art library (10/05/16)
Public commission: the town hall of Soulac-sur-Mer: sculpture created during the urban residency and public performance “Urban Welding Art” (05/03–12/05/13, Place de la Basilique, Soulac-sur-Mer)
Public commission: UEAJ 33. Practical internship with youth from Judicial Youth Protection, aimed at social and professional integration (2013, UEAJ 33, Bordeaux)
Public commission from the Gironde General Council. Trophies “Mission Agenda 21” (10/15/2012, Gironde General Council, Bordeaux)
Public commission of UEAJ 33: creation of paintings for training restaurant “le P’tit Creux.” Practical internship with youths from Judicial Youth Protection, aimed at social and professional integration (05–06/2012, 12/12/12, 11/12/12, multiple sessions in Listrac-Médoc)
Public commission from the town hall of Avensan: 20th anniversary of twinning with Castrillo de Murcia (04/2012)
Creation of a monumental mission cross (02/2012, town hall of Cussac-Médoc)
Public commission: monumental sculpture for the entrance of a media library (Inauguration 10/09/11, Beychac et Cailleau)
Creation of trophies for the Michelet Challenge. Practical internship with youths from Judicial Youth Protection, aimed at social and professional integration. (2010/2011, UEAJ 33)
Creation of sculptures for school parking lots. Project with children participation. (2009, Avensan town hall, France)