Incollect Magazine - Issue 13

18 www.incollect.com paintings adorn her walls, while behind her stands a totemic sculpture from a recent sculptural installation at Charles de Gaulle Airport. Having originally studied art history at the Louvre School, she honed her skills with hands-on training in restoration, casting, and metalwork. She’s a painter, too, and it shows in the way she creates. She works from quickly rendered sketches, or, on occasion, maquettes, that guide her intuitive explorations in color and form. She prizes spontaneity. Renaud Vuaillat, from Twenty First Gallery, where Saint Lager had her first solo exhibition in the United States in 2022, observes, "Her pieces carry a vibrant, chaotic energy softened by an intimate undertone, and the resin’s depth, fluidity, and transparency yield breathtaking effects.” Her home workshop, where she makes her resin pieces, is located in Ivry-sur-Seine, outside Paris. Sometimes she utilizes molds, but more typically, a hollowed-out bed of sand lined with a canvas sheet defines the shape of the object. “It is done in layers,” she explains. “Each poured resin layer is a couple of inches thick and has to be left 24 hours to cure before I can begin another layer, so it is a slow process.” The tables take 5–6 layers to complete, sometimes more, depending on size. No two resin furniture designs are ever completely alike, as Saint Lager’s works are colored with bubbles and dollops of industrial dyes, which create depth, opacity, and iridescence. They are also brimming with suspended inclusions, ranging from metal shavings, bits of holographic film, glitter, and Déchiqueté Gold Mirror, poured aluminum, gold leaf finish. Unique piece, 2021.