■ Awake in the waste
français • english
traduction du titre: Se réveiller dans les déchets
Le sol semble être un matériel qui ne disparaitra jamais. Mon livre souligne la piètre composition de cette matière qui se dégrade à cause des actions de l’humain. J’ai écrit des expressions où les mots se contredisent. Ces courtes phrases sont placées dans des tubes de verre, comme s’il s’agissait d’objets scientifiques devant être stérilisés, mesurés, analysés.
J’ai utilisé un manuel scolaire scientifique de 1921 destiné à des jeunes. Ce livre me sert de sol, en quelque sorte. Il est abîmé et perd son équilibre. La terre transforme bien les matières naturelles comme la fibre et le papier, mais les humains y ajoutent aussi plusieurs matières inertes comme le plastique, le métal, le verre, etc.
On peut avoir une idée d’ensemble du livre, mais c’est de près qu’il révèle tous ses messages. La pendule est là pour nous rappeler que le temps presse.
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format: 38 cm x 20,5 cm x 2,5 cm
exposition: Délire de livres, Rambouillet (France), 2016
livre unique • 2015 • 600$ • me contacter
For us, the soil is a material that seems impossible to disappear.
My book underlines the composition of the ground which is deteriorating because of humans’ choices. I wrote some contrasting expressions on the importance of dirt. These short sentences are placed in glass tubes so as to isolate them as if they were a scientific subject that we analyze, measure, sterilize, etc.
A 1921 scientific book for a young audience serves as my soil. The book is damaged and it has lost its balance, just like the earth. As far as waste is concerned, the earth successfully transforms the fiber of the natural materials such as paper but humans have added many “inert” materials such as plastic, metal, glass.
We may have an overview of the work, but it is by looking closely at it that we see the toxic materials here and there, as almost everywhere on the ground. The book is also a clock without hour, but with a pendulum because time is short.
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size: 15" x 8" x 1"
exhibition: Délire de livres, Rambouillet (France), 2016
unique book • 2015 • $600 • contact me
traduction du titre: Se réveiller dans les déchets
J’ai utilisé un manuel scolaire scientifique de 1921 destiné à des jeunes. Ce livre me sert de sol, en quelque sorte. Il est abîmé et perd son équilibre. La terre transforme bien les matières naturelles comme la fibre et le papier, mais les humains y ajoutent aussi plusieurs matières inertes comme le plastique, le métal, le verre, etc.
On peut avoir une idée d’ensemble du livre, mais c’est de près qu’il révèle tous ses messages. La pendule est là pour nous rappeler que le temps presse.
____________________
format: 38 cm x 20,5 cm x 2,5 cm
exposition: Délire de livres, Rambouillet (France), 2016
livre unique • 2015 • 600$ • me contacter
My book underlines the composition of the ground which is deteriorating because of humans’ choices. I wrote some contrasting expressions on the importance of dirt. These short sentences are placed in glass tubes so as to isolate them as if they were a scientific subject that we analyze, measure, sterilize, etc.
A 1921 scientific book for a young audience serves as my soil. The book is damaged and it has lost its balance, just like the earth. As far as waste is concerned, the earth successfully transforms the fiber of the natural materials such as paper but humans have added many “inert” materials such as plastic, metal, glass.
We may have an overview of the work, but it is by looking closely at it that we see the toxic materials here and there, as almost everywhere on the ground. The book is also a clock without hour, but with a pendulum because time is short.
____________________
size: 15" x 8" x 1"
exhibition: Délire de livres, Rambouillet (France), 2016
unique book • 2015 • $600 • contact me
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