Enchainneté is a silent and unsettling sculpture, where the weight of a rusted chain seems contradicted by its almost floating posture.
The title plays on a double meaning — between to chain and to enchant. Two seemingly opposite verbs: one evokes attachment, constraint, heaviness; the other, magic, surprise, the sudden appearance of wonder. This ambiguity runs through the entire piece: we can’t tell whether the chain is being held back or set free, trapped or levitating.
Through this subtle shift in language, Karoline questions our relationship with things we believe to be fixed, heavy, immutable.
She offers a way of seeing the possibility of escape — from what seems to hold us down.
Enchainneté invites us to look beyond the material. To feel what, beneath the rust and weight, can still spark wonder.
