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It stands on a platform with legs
and is composed of a capsule to hold over the nut, a hammer to smash the nut inside the capsule, and a long spring which gives the hammer the force to smash the nut. It is entirely made of steel.
It looks a bit like a mosquito, an annoying insect.
When it is activated, the hit of the hammer makes the legs shake and tremble, as if it was alive.
Height 160cm
Amsterdam 2016

This is the head of a man, lying on his cheek.
The neck is cut. There is a light frown on his face,
he looks faintly surprised and discontented.
The sculpture tries to be naïve.

A chair made from one piece
of wood

This lamp is about the size of a man.
It is made of steel with a base of concrete.
It was a self initiated project, I wanted it to be as simple in form and technique as possible, finally using the stick figure to represent the human. I like it also because this simplicity in method and form makes it an easy object to reproduce therefore to commercialise.
Height 170cm
Amsterdam 2015

This chair is fat and funny looking.
It's shape tries to stay simple,
against the complex appearance
of the wood. The wood itself and the form I gave it present many imperfections. This I think adds to the odd and funny personality of the chair.
The initial shape was carved with a chainsaw, then with chisels and a grinder. It was finally sanded with an electric sander and a coating of wood oil was applied.
Height 100cm Width 50cm
Kyoto 2017

This is a collaboration with my brother Samuel Bloch, working as a graphic designer.
It is a research for creating an identity with drawings for a typeface he created.
It was an exercise of style in my own drawing practice, big influences for me are the works of
Saul Steinberg, Sempé, Tomi Ungerer to cite a few drawers.
Kyoto 2017

Drawings for letters

Precious spanish chair made with broomsticks

This is part of a project initiated by a guest teacher, artist and designer joost Conijn.
The assignment was to make objects related to his work: a documentary film art piece of his stay in
different refugee camps in Greece and France.
This chair is made with the simplest and cheapest means, broomsticks, rope, nails and glue.
It wants to be precious, important, through the care that is given to its construction.
It is inspired by an old Spanish chair my mother inherited from her grandmother.
This chair tries to embody the way a refugees or migrants, displaced from their place of origin and confronted with a precarious existence, carry with them their culture, their pride, and their roots.
Height 80cm Width 50cm
Amsterdam 2017

This is another collaboration made with my brother Samuel Bloch. It is a research we made together, he was making letters and typefaces, and I was writing texts, making drawings and sculptures. The point of it was to influence each other in both ways so as to create a common atmosphere, which resulted in the making of a book. The design and binding of the book was executed by him.
Amsterdam 2017

These two small figurines form a couple.
The man is rough and square, and the woman is round and smooth.
They are a part of a collection of small figurines I have been making for two years now. They are inspired by primitive art, figurines of men and women we can find in our archeological museums, may it be a doll of classical Greece or a Cycladic sculpture...
They were cast in aluminium.
Height 10cm
Kyoto 2017

This was my first experience with stone carving. It was done in the event of my exchange in the sculpture department of the Kyoto Seika University in Japan. It was interesting to use new tools and a new material which demanded perseverance and effort to work all the way to a final state.
Width 50cm Height 40cm
Kyoto 2017