BIOGRAPHY

An architect converted into an artist to explore time’s mysteries.

Quentin Carnaille was born in 1984 in Roubaix, northern France, and he started developing jewelry and objects while studying architecture in Belgium.

In 2008, a year before graduating, he created a pair of cufflinks as a gift for his father. The pieces were crafted from two mechanical watch movements from the 1930’s.
A month later, the cufflinks find their way to the « Louvre des Antiquaires » in Paris in a well-known antiques dealer.

In parallel, his creations multiply, his first exhibitions take place and the artist wins several awards.
The same year he obtains his Diploma of Architecture and a prize that enables him to open his own workshop/boutique in Lille (France) thanks to the label « Maison de mode ».
He lives in the boutique’s basement for a year in order to work day and night.
The young artist develops and increasingly thorough reflection around the notion of time, querying themes like infinity, relativity, the ruin, or else the origin of time reading, astronomy.
His work deversifies and thereby are born several sculptures mixing magnetism, reflection and levitation.