Vestiges du son de la pluie
Ceramics and sand, 2021, 160 x 100 x 120cm
Shown at the group exhibition Past & Future at La Station (Verdun) in 2021
What remain after an event? How do you address something when the sense has been lost and only the consequences remains? The work to recover meaning might be incommensurable. Threads of stories remains, but they are sinking in the sand, void of feelings, far from context; only offering an eerie silence.
Vestiges du son de la pluie discusses the loss of memories and our relationship to the self and to the past. It is about the meaninglessness you feel in deep despair and the tentative to retrieve significance by looking in the remains. The installation presents a desert accumulated in a corner as if wind had pushed it away again and again. The ceramics sculptures are sinking in the sand and their colors have been washed away by time. The house is on the verge of tumbling below while an mi-fish mi-whale is left stranded. Presented to us are ruins of a story, but the vestige offers no beginning or end. Where does it all start? Should we interpret it; is it important to know?
Vestiges du son de la pluie discusses the loss of memories and our relationship to the self and to the past. It is about the meaninglessness you feel in deep despair and the tentative to retrieve significance by looking in the remains. The installation presents a desert accumulated in a corner as if wind had pushed it away again and again. The ceramics sculptures are sinking in the sand and their colors have been washed away by time. The house is on the verge of tumbling below while an mi-fish mi-whale is left stranded. Presented to us are ruins of a story, but the vestige offers no beginning or end. Where does it all start? Should we interpret it; is it important to know?
