4 different sized cardboard boxes are piled up to look like a perforated Babel tower. Each box utters a different animal sound when you come close to it. From top to bottom, a rooster, a cat, a dog and a donkey can be heard. This installation recalls the Brother Grimm’s fable “The musicians of Bremen” when during the night the animals jumped on each others backs to make the thieves in the forest believe they were one big monstrous animal. In this process, they became a frightening indefinite form, a huge unusual shadow that slowly approached the thieves with shouts and screams in a cacophonic way.
Animals of Bremen is in its total, based on imagination, which therefore also recalls another reference: Saint Exupéry’s “little Prince”. The boxes are like the box which contains the little prince’s sheep.
Any box, drawn or real, is able to contain anything, and stimulates our imagination. Once it is perforated, in our imagination, it means that there is something alive inside that needs oxygen to breathe. The being that is inside remains a mystery, only the sound brings us an idea of its form.
