Clément Pasquier

École de Condé
IG @clementpasquier_

Clément Pasquier has 3,428 drawings in his phone’s notes. Images, sketches, ideas that arrive at any time, anywhere, often for no reason. His work revolves around objects, spaces, and the way we use them. Each project begins with two questions: what is the context? What is the use? Form is never a starting point, but a consequence. At the intersection of the object, interior architecture and scenography: observe, analyse, understand, make necessary. He privileges precision over effect, real impact over image. His objects and furniture are born from drawing and making. Reuse, repurposing, unexpected materials, making mobile what was not, allowing coexistence of what did not cross paths. Every detail is justified. Ornament is not excluded: it is earned.

Temps Perdu
Temps Perdu is an immersive piece, at the boundary between bedroom and study, taking as its starting point Marcel Proust’s bedroom, the enclosed space where much of In Search of Lost Time was written.

More than a formal or literary reference, this room embodies the idea of a voluntary confinement: a space withdrawn from the world, where stillness becomes fertile and attention to the senses is heightened.

The piece is not a reconstruction but a mental interpretation. It imagines a place frozen, absorbed by time, like a fragment of inner space. Floor, walls, ceiling, furniture and accessories are entirely wrapped in a sprayed mixture of cork and plaster, until any hierarchy between architecture, décor and objects is erased.

Cork, drawn from the cork oak, a material typical of the Mediterranean basin, here forms a link between a Proustian imaginary and a territory. Vernacular, tied to ancient know-how, it anchors the piece in its context and pays homage to it. Applied uniformly, it transforms the space into a total, almost unreal monochrome.

This material continuity deliberately alters perception. Sight is blurred by the absence of contrast. Sound is absorbed by the acoustic properties of cork. Touch loses its bearings, each surface offering a similar, muffled and enveloping sensation.

The visitor thus enters a space where material, acoustics, light, smell and perception become tools of design. Time seems slowed, suspended, as in a place forgotten or withdrawn from reality.

Temps Perdu can be read as a mental room, a psychic setting, a fragment of Proust’s inner palace. Confinement here is not merely a constraint: it becomes a condition for creation, a space where withdrawal allows thought, memory and sensation to emerge.

Through this installation, the project questions the way a space can act upon our relationship to time, to attention and to matter, offering a total sensory experience, silent and almost otherworldly.

WITH THE SUPPORT OF
ALLIANCE DU LIN ET DU CHANVRE EUROPÉENS
CODIMAT COLLECTION - CARPET SOCIETY
SOLIEGE
CAROLE CALVEZ PARFUMEUSE
ET DESIGNER OLFACTIF