"My God, deliver me from the model!" (Diderot, Salon of 1765)
At the origin of Daphné Corregan's work, there is always a sensitive track, sketched either by drawings, or by photographs or a conversation, which are like possible anchor points of ceramic plastic.
Daphné Corregan's works are not sculptures, they are not defined in relation to space but they are already space; a space that is stretched, cut, partitioned; a space that does not represent the world but the idea that we have of it. And from which the anecdote is excluded.
So what is at stake in a piece as important (I am not talking about its dimensions) as "Divided Spaces" to which are linked pieces like "House and Garden" or "Spaces and Squares" of which her "Espaces Préservés" of 1998 were already the premises, is nothing other than the power of a thought to make a plastic utopia exist. So, what do we do with our lives? How do we compartmentalize them? And why? Do these compartmentalizations serve to protect us? And then, what are we afraid of? It is in these most secret questions where our personal mythologies are sketched that Daphné Corregan's plastic work originates. Even when she happens to take an obvious reference, the preserve of classical sculpture like the representation of the human head, her work refers us less to what we know intimately or anatomically about the head than to an interrogation on the head-object itself; referring us to the double of the head, a threatened head, emptied, pierced, returned to its desert.
It is thus logical that her latest creations of "breaths" and "clouds" are to be considered in this philosophical perspective of the model because what Daphné gives us to see are works that refer only to themselves, opnis (unidentified plastic objects) that shine on the edge of the world of known forms, improbable constellations, light as clouds and like them bizarre and disconcerting. Daphné comes to enrich once again the universe of forms with these objects of which Lambercy said that they take the "measure of the world".
Michel Le Gentil