We carried out this installation from September 9 to 16, 2012 on the Digue du Large. A week in front of the sea, drunk with the wind and the sun, doing this ridiculous and magnificent gesture together. The work withstood a force 9 mistral, but not a few human hands. We have seen of our work only what we give you to see here. Barely completed, the installation was destroyed by a passer-by from La Digue and not a single gold leaf was found around it! We will never know what displeased him so much, or perhaps this passer-by got caught up in the work, seeing in it valuable material ? The investigation was vigorously carried out within the Port and will remain unanswered: who stole the gold from Africa ? that was the question asked, they simply told me at the security service secretariat… The two days that followed, we again covered a few blocks with what was left of the adhesive, to finally see from the sea, during a boat trip, the bursts of light from Golden Africa…
Adrift project
Vestiges / Atar
Série "Vestiges"
2023-2024
Encre de tampon sur papier Canson
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A l’origine de ces étranges dessins, la trace d’un geste, celui de l’artiste jetant au hasard sur le papier immaculé les cubes de bois qu’il vient de tremper dans l’encre de tampon pour les laisser sécher. Les empreintes évanescentes qui subsistent, retravaillée par extension et superposition deviennent alors vestiges d’une action et d’un processus, mais aussi plus poétiquement, mémoire de ruines, cartographies d’époques révolues ou vues aériennes de cités perdues. Ces dessins à la fois aléatoires et agencés ne sont pas sans évoquer une autre série de l’artiste, les Chutes, composées à partir des découpes inutilisées d’adhésif doré pour ses travaux de recouvrement d’objets.
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(Florence Renault)