Printemps - Automne - Hiver, installation 2025

(Spring - Autumn - Winter) 

An original work by Caroline Bravo

Sound installation - eponymous prose text (2004)
Textile, metal, water

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Presented as part of the Window Meteo residency, upon invitation by Franco-German artist Andrea Weber, the installation Spring - Autumn - Winter unfolds as an emotional meteorology centered on romantic grief.

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Spring-Autumn-Winter suggests a trajectory in which summer, the season of fullness, is notably absent. This absence marks an interrupted ascent. The work leads us directly from spring into an extended autumn and winter. The title, echoing the film by Korean director Kim Ki-duk, Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter… and Spring, diverts the cyclical logic, introducing absence as a poetic gesture.

 

A thick kimono, suspended from a metal structure, slowly releases drops of water, evoking an inner rainfall. Running throughout the piece is a reading of the eponymous text drawn from the artist’s literary archives (2004). Between climatic phenomenon and emotional state, rain becomes here a metaphor for emotional time: that of a repeated, almost incantatory waiting that already knows it will not be fulfilled.

 

The soaked garment becomes a point of convergence between the intimate and the external. A dual reading emerges: the rain that permeates it is both that of the outside world — a concrete meteorological phenomenon — and that of an interiority marked by grief. Each drop embodies a moment of memory, loss, or resilience.

 

Thus, Spring-Autumn-Winter can be read and heard as a score of suspended time, where the seasons of the soul merge with the materiality of a pared-down gesture, turning rain into a language of intimacy.