Most of those works
are connected to the obsession of looking for my own space. Because
I could not find myself comfortable anywhere, I started to look
around me to consider how to create a space, that private area I
need to feel better and sometimes to simply breathe. I have tried
to express this feeling through many works using different media
and that includes ideas such as protection, the research and the
visit of spaces, appropriation and so on.
- my own protection (97),
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- flats coming out of my memory
(98), .........................................2
- to learn about a man through his
living place (publication, 98), .............3
- construction to be isolated
(99), ...............................................4
- first action in the street (99-2000), .....................................5
- to travel and to show the various
spaces discovered (99-2000), ............6
- Packing / piling, facade and flat
(99-2000), .......................................7
- back to the street (2000)........................................................8
- staying at home (2000)........................................................9 |
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1 - I was looking for the remains of an animal in myself. On the
outfit that I sewed on this theme, I added a physical protection
on my back, a kind of roof that I could carry with me, a security
that always let me a way to hide myself.
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in Grenoble (Fr) streets |
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Oct. 1997
Fabrics and different materials
Interventions in town and mountains. Exhibition at the art school
of Grenoble.
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2 - In this 4 models of flats, furniture and characters are just
white blocks that you can identify with some words (sensations,
feelings...) coming out from my memory.
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Pierre's flat |
Jean's flat |
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1998
4 models
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3 - Thanks to a portfolio of drawings people can learn about a man
through his living place. From my point of vue, drawings of his
home give more impressions and informations about him than his portait.
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first page |
extract from the portfolio |
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1998
Portfolio "Cet homme" Collection Profils
Art School of Grenoble (command to the artist)
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4 - During 3 or 4 months in 1999, I build a wood construction for
two people to get them isolated from a group. That closed and cosy
space -a sort of confessional, could let us have a rest or a quiet
discussion.
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1999
Construction in wood and velvet
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5 - I wanted to build other cells, but in different forms and fonctions:
one for discussion, one for being away of too much noise, one for
getting relaxed, and so on. But, how people would react in front
of these objects which have no familiar forms? That's one of the
reason why I decided to invest accessible spaces in town.
So, 2 months later, helped by a few friends, we painted two spaces
in Grenoble streets. It was enough to give them a particular status.
I wanted to awake other places, like bus or tram stops, rooms in
railway stations, mainly for people that are waiting for their transport.
I wanted to create some kindly and friendly spaces by transforming
the architecture, painting, bringing objects... At that time, I
discovered Sophie Calle's work on the public phones. So I didn't
put into concrete my project.
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6 - During the year 1999-2000, I took a lot of photographs in different
kind of buildings (block of flats, hotels, houses...) that I visited.
The heroes of these pictures are stairs, doors, corridors, lifts
and lamps, chairs... All of those objects that we are using every
day without paying attention to them. They are build by and for
man but there's no man on my pictures.
I turned those pictures into a cardgame to make them accessible
to people. So everyone can create his own space using the 36 cards
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(Ardèche- Fr)
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(Tunisia)
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(Normandie -Fr)
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1999-2000
Card game (colour photographs)
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- In 99, I met the only house where I felt really bad (because of
the architecture itself). I wanted to show this feeling with a video
but I didn't succeed. I just kept a few photographs, trying to show
the atmosphere of the place... Then I made another video of a body
unable to breathe confronted with a too large architecture (hight
block of flats). This little film should be arranged to be presented.
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7 - Packing / piling, facade and flat.
Facades of buildings and boxes are mixed in one picture thanks to
this projection of slides. You can discover your building as a pyramid
of packed wood boxes.
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Examples of what can be seen on the wall
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1999-2000
Confronting pictures in an installation: 2 constructions in wood
carrying 6 slide projectors
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8 - I looked at "architectures" build by Manfred Pernice,
showing the differences between an architectural project and the
reality. Why are they closed in this museum (that was so absurd
for me)? It was clear for me now: I will build my own constructions
in the street, quickly and with the material I will find there,
trying to present the urgent need of having my own space. This idea
helped me to think the public space in a different way. |
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Hoche, Grenoble, may 2000
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9 - Silence and Time
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June 2000
9 colour photographs |
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10 - To present some absurdity in our everyday architecture: a series
of short films mixing voice and drawings that I did never end...
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