SKINT
THE FRIEZE
SKINT is a 69-metre frieze conceived in dialogue with the Bayeux Tapestry. Inspired by the Tapestry’s monumental scale, intricate craftsmanship, and vivid narrative detail, the work reflects on the endurance of social struggle across centuries. Rather than revisiting the historical events depicted in the original, SKINT examines the fragile continuities between medieval and contemporary forms of conflict. Through layered imagery of consumption, displacement, and resilience, it evokes the daily battles faced by marginalised communities and the repeating cycles of precarity that shape collective experience today.
"Personnages, visages et silhouettes hantent le mur. Ils s’y engloutissent, en émergent, s’effacent et nous interpellent. Ils affrontent les barbelés de notre histoire commune. Les fractures d’une Humanité qui n’est pas toujours à l’écoute des siens, et encore moins des siennes. SKINT est un affrontement. Un engagement aussi. Et une preuve de courage absolu"
Pascal Jacob | Extrait du catalogue SKINT | Paris 2026
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SKINT-Traces Vives | Guestbook | Avallon | Summer 2026
Overview SKINT exhibition Avallon 2026
“What a gut-punch this exhibition is! A wave of emotion swept through me […] Where is happiness to be found? Is all of this absurd, in the end? Thank you for these questions!”
— J.
SKINT frieze Avallon 2026
“I love this line, which in its potential has neither beginning nor end, yet doesn’t close in on itself.”
— D. M. translated from Russian
Overview SKINT exhibition Avallon 2026
“A grandiose project, equal to the despair of a world becoming dehumanized. This mirror held up to us invites us not to give up!”
— C. D.
SKINT frieze Avallon 2026
“A story, lives, wings... a journey, with colour, with pain, with lightness, with gravity.”
— S. M.
SKINT works on paper exhibition Avallon 2026
“Interesting to finally see art without taboos”
— M.
SKINT frieze Avallon 2026
“A single line is everything, yet it can take us so far […] It compels us to reflect and to move toward an optimism sorely lacking in this world.”
— C. and D.
“What talent! It’s beautiful, a poetic flight.”
— Anonymous
SKINT Schoolcards series Avallon 2026
SKINT Gemma 123 series Avallon 2026
“This exhibition does so much good... for the eyes... for the soul”
— A. D.
SKINT Cardboard Tower Avallon 2026
“Thank you, such beauty, so much expression across your different works, a reflection of society.”
— C. L.
Performance at the origine of the SKINT frieze 2024
