Olivier Monfet
✕ About

Apracticeinfivepieces

  1. 01Beginnings

    Asketcher

    Olivier started with portraits drawn from life — faces studied with pencil before they were ever broken with stone.

  2. 02Detour I

    Photography

    After a backpacking trip across Europe, he opened a small photography studio. The camera taught him to find the moment a face stops performing.

  3. 03Detour II

    Fifteenyearsinretail

    The art quieted. For fifteen years he ran retail stores, kept a roof, watched the practice from a distance while exploring mediums in private.

  4. 04The break

    Hisfather'sillness

    Confronting fragility up close brought him back. He left the business and gave himself entirely to the work.

  5. 05Now

    Brokenglass

    He found the medium that holds both halves of what he was after — glass that shatters, held in place. Each crack a record, each piece a survival.

Eachcrackisastoryofstruggleandstrength.

— Olivier Monfet