LINE VAUTRIN TALOSEL COLLIER

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Line Vautrin (1913-1997)

Talosel collier

Resin and mirrored glass

France, c. 1955

 

Forged from her patented Talosel technique–a sculptural resin method of her own invention–this collier by Line Vautrin explores the psychic terrain between concealment and reflection. Its mirrored fragments shimmer not with ornament, but with intent: fractured planes that refract light and memory in equal measure.

 

Each sliver of glass captures and distorts the gaze, conjuring a fragile architecture of emotional armor–an adornment that both reveals and protects. The effect is not decorative, but alchemical: a wearable enigma poised between abstraction and myth.

 

Like much of Vautrin’s work, the necklace resists categorization. It is sculpture, relic, and spell–an object born from the modernist impulse but steeped in arcane intimacy. In it adornment becomes epistemology of light: to wear it is to shimmer and to shield in a single gesture.

 

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