Anzar, 2026

45 glasses, rainwater collected in Eancé (35640, Brittany), pedestal side tables, sound piece (cloned voice and water sounds), approx. 120 × 100 cm

Forty-five collected glass vessels are gathered and arranged as a stream across the floor.

Some contain rainwater collected by my uncle by marriage, Jean-Paul, in Eancé (35640), Ille-et-Vilaine. The installation invokes the Amazigh ritual Tislit'n Anzar (translated by “The bride of Anzar”) without reconstituting it : it produces a new form of it, from a generational in-between space, between what is missing and what remains.

Anzar is the Amazigh personification of rain, associated with waters and fluids. His presence is still invoked today during periods of drought through a collective feminine ritual among Amazigh communities. The original ritual requires the pouring of water: here, this gesture becomes the threshold of the work. Visitors are invited to perform it — to enter the ritual and, for a moment, become its bearer.