Fontanelle Blindée

Fontanelle Blindée is an installation composed of 80 babies in armor, white porcelain soldiers arranged on the ground in formation. These closed-eyed figures are as much golems — the protective homunculus of Jewish mysticism — as crash-test dummies, designed to absorb impact on behalf of others.

Individually, each golem could be taken as an apotropaic fetish, but as soon as it joins the formation, it loses its singularity in the military cadence. The formation, a subversion of Malevich's White Cross — that emblematic sign of modernist utopia — becomes a matrix of sacrificial standardization: where there was once an impulse of regeneration, a logic of output takes hold.

These miniature units are not designed to develop, but to endure. Their function precedes their existence: integrated from the outset into a production protocol, they become substitutable entities operating within a utilitarian framework. They embody a form of bare life, available for use, but devoid of ontological value.