Constellation ordinaire #14 (Les Êtres)
10° Biennale internationale d'art contemporain de Melle : "Nous Merveillons"
2024
Literally “Ordinary constellation #14 (The Beings)”
The starting point is a large pile of wood, logs and tree trunks, accumulated on the materials storage site of the Melle commune's technical services. The wood came mainly from trees that had fallen during the recent violent storms.
Carried onto a meadow, these fragmented and dislocated trees metamorphose into a more or less organized whole, a constellation of recomposed trunks whitewashed with arboricultural lime. Superimposed on segments of different diameters and wood species typical of the region (acacia, oak, birch and chestnut), the trunks stand like an impossible reconstruction of the forest they once formed. They stand as fragile witnesses to a land shaped by turbulent times.
Thank you for the images à Pierre Jozelin, Laurie Dall’Ava and Richard Monnier.
The starting point is a large pile of wood, logs and tree trunks, accumulated on the materials storage site of the Melle commune's technical services. The wood came mainly from trees that had fallen during the recent violent storms.
Carried onto a meadow, these fragmented and dislocated trees metamorphose into a more or less organized whole, a constellation of recomposed trunks whitewashed with arboricultural lime. Superimposed on segments of different diameters and wood species typical of the region (acacia, oak, birch and chestnut), the trunks stand like an impossible reconstruction of the forest they once formed. They stand as fragile witnesses to a land shaped by turbulent times.
Thank you for the images à Pierre Jozelin, Laurie Dall’Ava and Richard Monnier.
