Speculative anecdotes

2016 - 2017
Projects from the DNSAP diploma
Solo exhibition, Galérie Itérinante, Aix-en-Provence, France



112, 2017
Installation in situ in the building Logis du Bras d’Or in Aix-en-Provence; the piano of Darius Milhaud, installed in the stairway, is illuminated by a screen imitating the flashing lights of a police car. The installation reminds the use of the building until 1998 by the municipal police.

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Consignes, 2017
screens, headphones, audio recordings, flickering generator
with Théo Goedert
Text-to-speech and flickering screens; security instructions, found on www.gouvernement.fr/risques (page by the french government, covering risks from atomic accidents to volcanic eruptions and terrorism). The instructions are more and more distorted from the first to the last screen.

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Un instant, 2016-17
Videos of road accidents from Youtube, translated into schematic drawings
Roll of graph paper 2,50m x 1,10m, drawings 19x25cm on graph paper, edition of 112, folded A4

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Audrey/K2, 2015/17
Aluminium, plastic joins, printed vinyl
2m x 35cm x 20cm
Narratif object about two events: Grey, mount and descend - in 2008, eleven mountaineers die on the K2, second highest mountain in the world, victims of an avalanche and other events. Blue, plonge and ascend - in 2002, Audrey Mestre lost her life while trying to break the 171 meter world record in free-diving.
The texts are composed from eyewitness accounts found in two documentaries.


Parallel to the object, there exists an older version called "Audrey" as a web installation.

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En toute sécurité, 2016
quilted fabric, stuffing, wood, adhesive tape, spray paint
Miniatures in 1:10 ratio
45cm x 30cm x 25cm

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Anecdotes spéculatives, 2016
cardboard, stone, moss, plastic, paper mache, barricade tape, spray paint, acrylic paint, water, furnace oil, pedestals
variable dimansions, height ~ 0,90m
Three anecdotes, narrated without words: one lived, one found, one imagined. The places have been deranged, perhaps by accidents, a crime or a natural castastrophy.

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