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Périé |
Les témoins @Riorges (witnesses)
Ephemeral installationin a park, May June 2012Granite, bone glue, broth Land Art Festival, Riorges (Loire FR) This work is derived from another experimental work "La Chose". Here, the in-the-open installation consists of twenty
(or more) identical elements, made of local stone cubes, on which are
molded biological cubes sharing the same dimensions as the stone base
(20x20x20cm). The biological material used here is composed of a mixture
of bone glue (protein), water and broth. With time, the bone glue
dries, so that the cube progressively deforms tending to a spherical
shape. In the same time, it also interacts with the weather conditions
and biotope (vegetation, insects, bacterias, mold...) depending on their
immediate vicinity. All elements are directly lying on the ground. They
are arranged in the natural environment in an intuitive manner
depending on their relation to the surrounding landscape. The set looks
like a dispersed population in his natural habitat, silent witnesses
bearing the accumulated traces of what surrounds them. Far from the
spectacular, the installation is intended to be discrete; what is sought
here, is the transformation processes and their variations depending on
space and environment.
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