Nicolas MOMEIN

Nicolas Momein was born in 1980 in Saint-Étienne, and lives and works in Paris. Initially, he trained as an upholsterer, then resumed his studies and graduated from the Saint Etienne School of Art and Design in 2011 and from the Geneva University of Art and Design (HEAD) in 2012.

Nicolas Momein's work is built between sculpture and painting. He creates objects or paintings with hybrid forms, sometimes realistic, sometimes organic, often diverted from their primary use or in metamorphosis. The materials he uses are also chosen for their particular properties (relation to the evocation of the past - artist's memory, link to craftsmanship, to nature) and also in contrast with their initial vocation: foam rubber, rubber, horsehair, rock wool, soap, salt, vintage towels... These elements often enter a process of recycling and exchange before or after their first exhibition.

The Bump the Lamp table lamp is presented at Private Choice for its 2023 edition. The foam rubber fabric (evoking his childhood) is generally used as an underlay, stain-resistant, shockproof. The bronze casting, created in close collaboration with the foundry, finely reproduces these fold patterns but also those, almost psychedelic, of the octagonal cells of the rubber fabric. The organic forms of the sculptures seem to protect the radiation of the light source. This creation was made with the complicity of ColAAb, a house of everyday art founded by Aurélie Sarallier.

Presentation taken from the text by Pascale Le Thorel for ColAAb.