“Caroline Corbasson has opened our eyes to a subject that’s close to her heart: the wind, nature’s pollinator”, said the artist’s champion for The Wick, Ann Caroline Prazan, Director of Art, Culture & Heritage of Maison Guerlain. “Caroline captivated us with her interest in the wind. For her, the wind is a destroyer but also a pollinator of nature, which is so dear to us and which we have always cherished with Guerlain. It is also a fantastic vector of scents and fragrances. In the end, the wind has always been Guerlain’s greatest ally.”

The wind is subject and muse in the works made during Corbasson’s residency, now presented in a solo exhibition, ‘Something Moves’ at Lee Ufan Foundation. In a video piece, a perfect circle is formed by the wind in the sand – an appreciation of the natural beauty that evades us if we aren’t looking closely. In a series of sumptuous, deep blue oil paintings, words of poetry by Corbasson appear, submerged in colour – Corbasson has long engaged with poetry, particularly that of T.S Eliot, who she discovered at an early age and still holds dear. Each of these works is a landscape of its own, capturing the fleeting, invisible movement of the wind. These works blend the curious, enquiring gaze of science with her poetic study of nature, characteristic of the artist’s work.

“The residency provides ideal working conditions, in terms of time and space. It’s extremely precious, because I was mainly short of time. In two months, I feel I’ve created more than in a whole year. Being able to communicate, during this period, with Lee Ufan’s work, which I saw every day as I walked around the Fondation, was a stroke of luck. I feel his benevolent presence, and I’m grateful to have this incredible opportunity to be in this sublime place.” Corbasson is currently also exhibiting in France at Fondation Carmignac, in a group show titled Vertigo.

Next up, Corbasson will exhibit at the Photography Biennale in Daegu, Korea, in September, with two solo exhibitions to follow in Paris in Autumn too. But her proudest achievement to date? “To have never given up!”