Valérie BilletVisual artist — Sète
“Fragments 2”, sculpture park of Château Vargoz, Sérignan

Bringing the whale skeleton back to La Plagette

Sculpture dans l’espace public

A childhood memory of Sète: the half-buried whale skeleton in the garden of the Oceanographic Museum, brought back to La Plagette in concrete blocks.

“Fragments 2”, sculpture park of Château Vargoz, Sérignan
“Fragments 2”, sculpture park of Château Vargoz, Sérignan — © © Valérie Billet

A childhood memory

As a child in Sète, we often went for walks in the garden of the Oceanographic Museum. There was a whale skeleton there, half buried in the ground. I tried to bring this memory back to life with this project.

One sculpture is still on show in the sculpture park of Château Vargoz, in Sérignan.

“Fragments 2”, concrete and plastic, five elements from a 45 cm cube
“Fragments 2”, concrete, plastic: five elements taken from a 45 × 45 × 45 cm cube — © © Valérie Billet

The vertebrae

Vertebrae 2, 3, 4 and 5 — pen and ballpoint drawings on aged paper, series of 6, A4

Photographs: © Valérie Billet