155 plaster molds, wooden wedges, 8 x 12 x 0.4 m approximately
Production: Les Moulins de Paillard, center for contemporary art
Curator: Shelly de Vito and James Porter
Website: Les Moulins de Paillard

Constellation ordinaire #8 is a sculpture composed of a set of 155 plaster molds, originally made for the production of dishes and other stoneware objects, recovered from the outbuildings of the former ceramic factory of Les Moulins de Paillard, now occupied by the art center. The small factory produced between 1972 and 2005 objects of daily use in a way that was attentive to an equitable redistribution of income, thus prefiguring a cooperative and solidarity-based economy, and constituting an operative community utopia for a whole generation of this village in the Pays de la Loire region.The assembly of plaster molds occupies almost the entire surface of the exhibition room, leaving only a small space that allows one to walk around it and discover it from several points of view. The image he draws refers to a city or an architectural complex, rather modern. The convex and concave white forms could make one think of the buildings of the Brazilian architect Oscar Niemeyer, of whom Jan Kopp has already proposed several rereadings (including Courir Niemeyer, a video made on the Rachid Karamé Fair in Tripoli, Lebanon). Placed on wooden wedges, they create a floating horizontal level and unfold like an urban expanse, a metropolis detached from the ground, an almost flying community.