View of the exhibition "HOME" in contemporary art center in Brest Gateway NOWHERE / EVERYWHERE, 2009
video installation with double projection
Minimum size of the projection: 2 x (3.20 m x 1.80 m)
HDV PAL 16:9 color sound -2 x 16 minutes
Porters move through the landscape of small houses carton, along an axis pointing always to the west of Britain: Mountains Arrée, through his side the northernmost, to cross the Atlantic Ocean, approaching the coast of Quebec and continue in "wood" on the border of northern Quebec and Labrador. The trip was designed by drawing a line in the world map that moves continuously "center of the world."
The issue of mobility, membership in a global, globalization, lead us to a constant focus to find the right distance in our relationship in the world to another, the neighbor, abroad and by extension to our relationship to space private / public.
"Assailed from all shares and by all means, me and "my house" that does enjoy relative peace. Was the issue of luggage, we had both our bags and leave the country. "According to the new Herman Melville: I and my chimmney 1956. This work raises the question of the house as an ideal habitat in tension with the idea of transcendental self-fulfillment to conquer the west.
This video installation offers a sliding scale between a model house that carries it under his arm and long journeys across vast landscapes and uninhabited. This representation of landscape continues a long tradition and questions the role of "spectator", the maker of landscape.
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