In our paradoxical western world, the race for consumption, pleasure, production is more and more confronted to a search for meaning. The individual, more than ever audience, because of new technologies, also paradoxically endeavours to find oneself again while still being connected to the world. Asian cultures have long reflected over this issue, and there are some reasons why many of our contemporaries are attracted by Buddhism and its avatars.
How can we live serenely in our contemporary occidental world?
How can we allow this moment of state of grace which gives us a contact with our fullness ?
How can we create this true harmony between the body, the spirit, the others and the universe ?
How can we hear the voice of the infinite, telling us we are part of a great Whole ?

With Kokyu, meaning « breathe » in Japanese, Coralie Coms tries to give an answer both practical and poetic.
Taking her inspiration from Japanese bath, Coralie rediscovers the only place at home where nudity, isolation, water and pleasure merge: the bathroom.
Playing with the formal simplicity of Japanese gardens, Coralie has designed a pebble beach, with a light wave running through it at the pace of the breath of the bathroom’s user.
The breath itself is detected by a necklace, both witness and companion, that transmits to the pebble beach its fluctuation rhythm.
In another configuration, a pebble, witness of time and seasons, placed outside the house, grasps the outside atmosphere and send it back to the bathroom’s pebbles.
These two possibilities can be associated, offering then multiple combinations, in which simplicity and surprise mingle.