2015 - 2025 > A QUANTUM LEAP

The Paris-based French designer-plastician has been releasing since winter 2025-2026 a work that explores suspended time and the subjective nature of temporality, highlighting how the perception of time differs for everyone and varies according to the context. ＋

The project takes, among other forms, the shape of a series of diptychs — unique, handcrafted pieces that embody her artistic freedom and unfettered creativity.

Each tableau has several levels of reading and juxtaposed stories.
Through her work, designer and visual artist Virginie Knysak traces threads between metaphysics and the 'universal singularity' evoked by Jean-Paul Sartre.

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THE NOTION & PERCEPTION OF TIME

Situated between measurable physical time — shaped by gravity and velocity — and Bergson’s understanding of time as lived experience, Solaris evokes a suspended temporality where orbital motion meets inner perception.

Where quantum meets French philosophies of love.
The creations conjure up the perception of time, the cycles of life, and emotions.

An artistic continuum prompted by a unique relationship with temporality in 2021, shaped by perception and the way time was experienced that year. ＋

A paradoxical situation: the pace slowed down, yet it simultaneously triggered an acceleration in behavioral changes — pushing people to fast-forward and to adapt. Virginie Knysak captured this moment and pursued a deeper reflection on the phenomenon by immersing herself in further reading — notably the critical writings of Hartmut Rosa, who offers a particularly insightful analysis.

According to major scientific advances in quantum theory, there is no strict or absolute flow of time.
Time is not a fixed or linear concept.
Synchronization doesn’t exist: we may have the impression of sharing a common time, but it’s truly ‘to each their own time.’ ＋

Likewise, the book A Lover's Discourse: Fragments (1977) by French philosopher Roland Barthes inspired her. Like Marcel Proust in In Search of Lost Time, Barthes delves into the notion of waiting and the existential difficulty of synchronizing feelings along the unfolding path of love and relationships.
This theme has been addressed by the greatest writers since Homer, can already be found in The Odyssey, and constitutes a fundamental part of human history.

She translated it into the rhythm of a matrix she designed, giving it a physical and tangible form, emancipated from the standard time-based dimension

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BAS-RELIEF DIPTYCHES

The concept of diptychs and triptychs is rooted in historical, spiritual symbolism and in ancient bas-reliefs. ＋

This collection is built around a stylistic exercise that demonstrates the creative process through the reinterpretation of a pattern across multiple mediums.
Each diptych is based on a common aesthetic concept and, at the same time, conceived as a variation.
Thus, they work together as a set but can also be displayed as stand-alone pieces.

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THE PATTERN CREATES A SENSE OF MOVEMENT

Virginie Knysak used the technique of assemblage, deconstructing the movement.
She refers to the constructivism & orphism movement.

The dynamic of the drawings is hypnotic. Its shape is pure and structured, evoking a sense of motion.
Its contemplation raises an experience of tranquility & peacefulness.