On Saint Catherine's day
every branch takes root —
the hand knows to wait
La taille is a large oil painting, shown in the exhibition “Tcharendar” at Alkinois, Athens, in 2026. Closely framed, hands hold a tool in a working gesture; a piece of wood in the foreground recalls the material being worked.
The figure is not a portrait: it is the bearer of a know-how. Sébastien Bonin paints the act of carving as a gesture that is handed down, one that exists only because it can be repeated.