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Birth of a Mountain

Installation

Characteristics

Year
2020
Materials
Plant and mineral sculpture (woven wild clematis structure; mineral element)
Dimensions
3 x 1,70 m
Location / Collection
pour le site du futur espace culturel international de la montagne (ECIM) Manoir de Vaubonnais la Pierre (Isère) Association Scènes Obliques

About

A poetic approach to the birth of a mountain: its germ is contained in a woven structure of wild clematis resembling a seed. The work links the site's history (former agricultural estate), its environment (the mountain contained in the seed) and its present (ECIM, an artistic creation space). It stands like a beacon in the landscape, close to a cairn; its openwork character includes the surrounding space. It is also a meeting between the immutable mineral and the ephemeral plant: two elements in tension, one enveloping the other in a net. When the plant weaving deteriorates, the mineral element collapses, imploding from within, in this belly of air.