
(EN)
Surf & Flint, 2025
• Performance, sculpture, video
• Surfboard: 5'10'' × 23 × 4
• Construction: Upecycled PU foam, fiberglass, polyester resin
• Coloration : Red Soil
• Fins: Bone/cow scapula
• 1 unique piece
Published in: Acig Magazine No. 7
Exhibited at: Paris Surf Skate Film Festival 2025
Far from its Polynesian cultural and spiritual origins, surfing has now become an industrialized and seaside consumer product, whose factory production is dictated by economic expectations linked to mass tourism.
The Surf & Flint project reenacts this shift through the manufacture of a contemporary surfboard (PU foam, fiberglass, and resin), this time made by hand, exclusively using traditional tools that I produced myself: flint chips, bifaces, and scrapers, carved from stones and shells collected in the field.
This anachronistic encounter between materials from the chemical industry and ancestral techniques gives rise to a slow, physical, laborious process—contrary to the logic of optimization, speed, and industrialization that structures our relationship with objects today.
This act of manufacturing thus becomes a symbolic gesture, questioning our production choices, the value we place on time and gesture, and our relationship with the finished object.

(FR)
Surf & Flint, 2025
• Performance, sculpture, vidéo
• Surf : 5’10’’ × 23 × 4
• Fibre de verre & Résine polyester
• Terre riche en oxyde de fer
• Omoplate de veau
• 1 exemplaire
Published in: Acig Magazine No. 7
Exhibited at: Paris Surf Skate Film Festival 2025
Loin de ses origines culturelles et spirituelles polynésiennes, le surf est aujourd’hui devenu un objet de consommation industrialisé et balnéarisé, dont la production en usine est dictée par des attentes économiques liées au tourisme de masse.
Le projet Surf & Silex rejoue ce glissement au travers de la fabrication d’une planche de surf contemporaine (mousse P.U, fibre de verre et résine), cette fois réalisée à la main, exclusivement à l’aide d’outils traditionnels que j’ai moi même produits : éclats de silex, bifaces et racloirs, taillés à partir de pierres et de coquillages récoltés sur le terrain.
Cette rencontre anachronique entre matériaux issus de l’industrie chimique et techniques ancestrales engendre un processus lent, physique, laborieux — à rebours des logiques d’optimisation, de rapidité et d’industrialisation qui structurent aujourd’hui notre rapport aux objets.
Ce geste de fabrication devient alors un acte symbolique, interrogeant nos choix de production, la valeur que nous accordons au temps, au geste, et notre rapport à l’objet fini.












For more informations :
louis.souetre@gmail.com
© 2025 — Louis Souêtre

Surf & Flint, 2025
• Performance, sculpture, video
• Surfboard: 5'10'' × 23 × 4
• Construction: Upecycled PU foam, fiberglass, polyester resin
• Coloration : Red Soil
• Fins: Bone/cow scapula
• 1 unique piece
Published in: Acig Magazine No. 7
Exhibited at: Paris Surf Skate Film Festival 2025
Far from its Polynesian cultural and spiritual origins, surfing has now become an industrialized and seaside consumer product, whose factory production is dictated by economic expectations linked to mass tourism.
The Surf & Flint project reenacts this shift through the manufacture of a contemporary surfboard (PU foam, fiberglass, and resin), this time made by hand, exclusively using traditional tools that I produced myself: flint chips, bifaces, and scrapers, carved from stones and shells collected in the field.
This anachronistic encounter between materials from the chemical industry and ancestral techniques gives rise to a slow, physical, laborious process—contrary to the logic of optimization, speed, and industrialization that structures our relationship with objects today.
This act of manufacturing thus becomes a symbolic gesture, questioning our production choices, the value we place on time and gesture, and our relationship with the finished object.













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For more informations :
louis.souetre@gmail.com
© 2025 — Louis Souêtre