On last september, We, Alexandra David and I, were in art residency in a nursing home in France. We lived there for a month, we ate and slept there, we met old people and all the staff. from this very interesting experience, we did an exhibition curated by Vincent Verlé (curator of the CAB in Grenoble) in october 2009.
Here is the video of the exhibition inside the nursing home.
more photos are visible on the blog MDR (blog of our residency)
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LES EMPAILLES, 2003-work in progress
(old clothes, straw)
Conserving, stuffing clothes with straw like dead animals used to be stuffed. Like taxidermists that try to bring the animals back to life, but in presence not in its initial form. Stuffing the clothes like animals, to the limits of what the skin or the clothes can take. Deforming them, bloating them.
This process is like trying to give back life to the old clothes, but with straw instead of bodies and in an excessive stuffed and bloated way as to deform them.
The special process of the installation is also important to the artefact. I asked people living in the city where the show was to take place, to give me their old-fashioned and used clothes no longer worn. I sewed them together in their extremities in order to make them into one object, one piece._They were then stuffed in order to conserve them like as a species on the way of extinction. I preserved them like a "second skin"of mankind. This second skin which is so important in determining family origins or social status for each human being.
Conserving, stuffing clothes with straw like dead animals used to be stuffed. Like taxidermists that try to bring the animals back to life, but in presence not in its initial form. Stuffing the clothes like animals, to the limits of what the skin or the clothes can take. Deforming them, bloating them.
This process is like trying to give back life to the old clothes, but with straw instead of bodies and in an excessive stuffed and bloated way as to deform them.
The special process of the installation is also important to the artefact. I asked people living in the city where the show was to take place, to give me their old-fashioned and used clothes no longer worn. I sewed them together in their extremities in order to make them into one object, one piece._They were then stuffed in order to conserve them like as a species on the way of extinction. I preserved them like a "second skin"of mankind. This second skin which is so important in determining family origins or social status for each human being.
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