Best known for his Kiosque des noctambules in Paris, all aluminum beads and red and blue Murano glass, the sculptor has created a work in which his work on glass bricks, begun over ten years ago, takes the form of monumental architecture. Installed in the guard room of the bloodthirsty Black Prince, a medieval hall dating from 1369 that struggles to conceal its sinister past as a torture chamber, this site-specific work is a perfect reflection of Jean-Michel Othoniel's bewitching aesthetic, based on the notion of emotional geometry. At once luminous and sepulchral, it is a technical feat as much as a profound reflection on the hope that attempts to emerge from chaos. Hesitating between dream and nightmare, gravity and weightlessness, celestial light and abyssal darkness, these "ectoplasmic clouds" hypnotize the eye, as if to warn us of the destructive prince within us all.

On view until January 5, 2025 at the Musée Ingres Bourdelle in Montauban