AMÉLIE DAUTEUR – "ISOKO"

2026
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Painted ceramic on a marble base
Height: 39 cm

Isoko is a rare Japanese feminine given name composed of iso (磯), meaning "seashore" or "rocky beach," and ko (子), meaning "child." A child of the shore. A child born where land surrenders to water.

The kanji 磯 evokes something precise and untamed — not the smooth sand of leisure, but the jagged, barnacled edge where waves crash and recede, where the earth is constantly being rewritten by the sea. It is a boundary in perpetual negotiation, neither fully solid nor fully fluid.

To name a child Isoko is to place her at the threshold — between worlds, between stillness and motion, between what holds and what dissolves.

With this totem, Amélie Dauteur sculpts the figure of an in-between being. ISOKO does not belong entirely to any one element. She stands where forces meet, shaped by the tension of that encounter — worn smooth in some places, sharply defined in others, like stone that has known the tide for a long time.

A child of the edge. A monument to the beauty of the in-between.