“Making someone wait is the prerogative of all power.”
Roland Barthes, A Lover’s Discourse: Fragments

Prélude is a two-panel room divider that plays with the intimacy of the body, revealing and concealing it in turns.

The first panel, smaller and set apart, is made of ribbed glass. Behind it, the body becomes an uncertain presence, dissolved into blurred streaks, leaving the eye to imagine what the glass refuses to reveal.

The central panel is transparent. The body can be seen, yet skin remains concealed behind a series of pleated fans. With a turn of the fingers behind the glass, the fans open, unveil, and close again. Each movement teases with a glimpse, only to take it away.The simple act of looking becomes a game of anticipation and desire.