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A large butterfly hangs suspended in space. On the ground, a pair of mud-stained boots. Between them, a distance that keeps them apart. Second Envol does not describe what has taken place. The work preserves only its possibility, and its silence.
The installation holds lightness and weight, presence and absence, in tension. Between the two, the empty space invites us to imagine a passage without prescribing its narrative.
MATERIAL /
Structure, nylon thread, goose feathers, mud, rubber boots.
DIMENSION /
110 x 120 x 230 cm.
ARTWORK /
Second envol, Jean-François D’Or, 2026.
Unique piece #1/1, signed, with certificate of authenticity.
GALLERY /
Fondation Fournier-Majoie, UP Against Cancer.
Isabelle de Borchgrave Gallery, Brussels.
HOW TO BUY /
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Les bottes ont servi. Lourdes, elles portent les traces d’un territoire réel. La boue, comme élément d’un terrain traversé. Le titre Second envol introduit naturellement l’idée qu’il y a eu un avant, peut-être une chute, une immobilité ou une première existence, puis la possibilité d’un recommencement, d’un nouvel état après la traversée.
En filigrane, le CIRC (Centre international de recherche sur le cancer) estime à environ 20,6 millions le nombre de nouveaux cas de cancer dans le monde en 2024, soit environ 588 diagnostics toutes les quinze minutes. Les quelque 600 plumes, méticuleusement implantées une à une sur ce papillon chimérique, portent silencieusement cette réalité.
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An almost imperceptible substitution: the butterfly is entirely covered in goose feathers. This passage from the scales of a butterfly to the feathers of a bird creates a kind of silent hybridisation: one flying creature is covered in the material of another. This concealed strangeness does not demand attention; it reveals itself. Something seems perfectly natural, until a detail subtly shifts our perception of its reality. The transformation has thus left its mark on the very body of what is reborn, a serene chimera with wings of silence.
The boots have been worn. Heavy, they bear the traces of a real landscape. The mud, a remnant of ground once crossed. The title Second Envol naturally suggests that something came before, perhaps a fall, a period of stillness, or a first existence followed by the possibility of beginning again, of entering a new state after the passage.
Beneath the surface lies another reality. The International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) estimates that approximately 20.6 million new cases of cancer were diagnosed worldwide in 2024, equivalent to around 588 diagnoses every fifteen minutes. The approximately 600 feathers, meticulously attached one by one to this chimeric butterfly, silently bear witness to this reality.
Pictures © Jean-François D'Or © Fondation Fournier-Majoie.