Une installation sur l'îe de Gorée en 2014 - 2015, dans le cadre de "Formes et Paroles", une exposition organisée par le Musée DAPPER (Paris) Hors Les Murs.
Matériaux: feuille de plastique, bois, grillage.
Dimensions: 10m x 5m x 3m50 (longueur, largeur, hauteur)
WORDS THAT WEREN'T SPOKEN
Behind the superficial appearance may just lie hidden some deep truth. On the other side of visual images one may just find verbal words.
The landscape that I set up was completely fake and fussy. Fake trees. Fake shrubs. Fake leaves. Fake flowers. They were all made of plastic fabric.
Yet these multi-coloured flowers hid within their petals intimate, sincere and profound words. Words that could not be spoken by their unknown owners in front of the crowd. Those were the unseen twists and turns of the soul. Those were the true stories.
Behind the superficial appearance may just lie hidden some deep truth. On the other side of visual images one may just find verbal words.
The landscape that I set up was completely fake and fussy. Fake trees. Fake shrubs. Fake leaves. Fake flowers. They were all made of plastic fabric.
Yet these multi-coloured flowers hid within their petals intimate, sincere and profound words. Words that could not be spoken by their unknown owners in front of the crowd. Those were the unseen twists and turns of the soul. Those were the true stories.
My thanks to all who have sent me those words that were yet to be spoken, words that have now found their place within the flowers that strangers are now discovering on the other side of the ocean.
My thanks to Museum Dapper of Paris, the team of professional at the Museum and the residents of Goree island who have all worked together to enable the realisation of my work.
LES MOTS QUI N’ETAIENT PAS DITS
Derrière les apparences
superficielles se cachent peut-être des réalités profondes. Au-delà des images
il y a peut-être des mots.
Ce paysage est totalement
artificiel et sophistiqué. Faux arbres. Faux buissons. Fausses feuilles. Fausses
fleurs. Tous sont faits de plastique.
Mais ces fleurs de toutes
couleurs cachent sur leurs pétales les mots intimes, sincères et profonds que
les anonymes ne peuvent pas dire en public. Ce sont les replis de leur cœur. Ce
sont les histoires véridiques.
Merci à tous ceux qui
m’ont envoyé ces mots qui n’étaient jamais dits. Ils ont trouvé maintenant leur
place dans les fleurs que les inconnus d’au-delà des mers sont en train de
découvrir.
Merci au musée Dapper à
Paris, son équipe et les habitants de l’île de Gorée pour leur soutien précieux
à défaut duquel mon œuvre n’aurait pas vu le jour.
