Following the Paris 2024 Games, we wanted to capture more than just the event itself; we wanted to capture what remains once the crowds have dispersed and the atmosphere lingers. Zeus was born from that opening night, when the city served as a backdrop, a stage, and a sensory machine for a global audience.

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The piece is a hybrid object, somewhere between a painting and a sculpture. The head of the horse Zeus is not revealed as a portrait, but as an apparition. Beneath its surface, the silver-plated aluminum structure emerges: the mechanics are visible, becoming part of the vision itself. This is where the work finds its tension—between myth and engineering, momentum and framework, the living and the artificial.

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Everything happens at the edge of the frame. Sculpted to give the impression of breaking through the image, the head emerges from the canvas with striking intensity. There is a persistent quality to it, caught between the brilliance of Munch and the disenchanted clarity that Jacques Vaché bequeathed to surrealism: not a pure dream, but an apparition permeated by its own machinery.

Limited edition of 8 pieces available for sale.