Aurore Bouter : Glass in Tension
Aurore Bouter shapes glass as a living language, balancing tension and lightness. Her series — Caryatids, Skyline, Time, and Canopy — explore the material’s contrasts, from transparency to structure. Each piece reveals a poetic sense of rhythm and movement, composing a landscape that feels both organic and urban.
Aurore Bouter works with glass as a living language, in a constant search for balance between tension and lightness, verticality and vibration. Her works—whether in the form of curved glass columns (Caryatids series), luminous sculptural lines (Skyline series), floral sculptures (Time series), or floating vegetal architectures (Canopée series)—compose a sensitive and urban landscape.
Each piece explores the fundamental contrasts of the material—its transparency, fragility, and strength—while evoking a connection to the rhythm of the world. In her hands, glass becomes a poetic presence, suspended between structure and movement.
Skyline Series
With Skyline, Aurore Bouter draws lines of light through space. These vertical sculptures in thermoformed glass are both architectural and vibrant, echoing stylized urban silhouettes. Between tension and lightness, each piece captures and refracts light, playing with transparency and density. These works engage with the contemporary landscape while asserting a delicate, luminous presence in space.
Las Vegas (Skyline Serie) by night
Canopy Series
Canopée unfolds a suspended world, both vegetal and poetic. These floating glass structures, inspired by the organic architecture of forest canopies, compose an airy, immersive landscape. Aurore Bouter explores the balance between strength and fragility, verticality and movement. Here, glass becomes a living, weightless material—evoking a breath of nature at the very heart of matter.
Kirkenes (Canopy Serie) with fresh flowers
Time Series
Born from a Decorative Arts approach, the Time series reimagines the vase as a ritual sculpture. Blending solar-inspired design with floral art, these pieces explore temporality through form, color, and use. Echoing sundials and solar discs, they invite us to suspend time.
Bay of Fire (Time Serie) with fresh flowers
BOING! BOING! BOING!
This work was created for the '30 Boxes' project in 2024 at Galerie dHD for the Olympic Games. The exhibition "30 Boxes in Play" was labeled as part of the Cultural Olympiad by the Paris 2024 committee.
This sculpture features the five colors of the Olympic flag and is inspired by the Long Jump—how to transform running momentum into a leap. Named after the Springbok from comic book lore, it embodies the visceral impulse known as life. BOING! BOING! BOING!
Three of five glass pieces in BOING! BOING! BOING!
Caryatids Series
With the Caryatids series, Aurore Bouter delves into the essential tensions between strength and fragility, substance and void, light and form. Her bent-glass sculptures reinterpret the classical architectural figure of the caryatid—not as a support, but as a standalone form, charged with energy and quiet resistance. Glass becomes a body in balance, a luminous and silent presence. Each work invites the viewer to contemplate this delicate verticality—one that holds its own.
Caryatids 1 and 2 with BOING! BOING! BOING!
Aurore Bouter
"As a glass artist, my practice explores the balance between structure and fragility, opacity and transparency, emptiness and materiality. My Caryatids, curved glass sculptures from my latest research, reinterpret verticality and architectural strength in a quest for purity and tension. BOING! BOING! BOING!, takes a more playful and experimental approach to glass, playing with the illusion of movement and the suppleness of a rigid material."
Portrait (photo : Gilles Leimdorfer)
