A FRENCH PUBLIC SCULPTURE
Performance/Installation, 2016.
Designed especially for «Les Halles de Schaerbeek» and their event « Habiter le temps d’un rêve», a group show on the idea of the world as a village to create and live in.
I decided to work on exclusion and criminality related to art.
For this, I have been reproducing, in an anthropomorphic scale the work of Jean Dubuffet: « La tour aux figures ». Inspired by his book «Asphyxiante culture» and by the strong and terrifying souvenir this tower left me, as a child living nearby.
I also noticed that Jean Dubuffet describes this work as an external cavity,
This installation plays with empty spaces by dividing this tower in four parts, and inviting people to take place in its center.
Then, hidden somewhere in the exhibition place, I interact with the viewers, driving them through a pre-written dialogue and trying to influence them, to play with their beliefs
This dialogue is now recorded as a sound piece.
On the back of each sculpture a quote evokes criminality in relation to art and a clay sculpture of the face of the author, a picture of the «gastrovolve» is also displayed, the inside motifs of Dubuffet’s tower.
