CHERCHEUSES D’OR
2023
Vue de l’installation Chercheuses d’or / Installation view Chercheuses d’or (Gold diggers), CACY, Yverdon (CH), 2023
An American law allows private companies the right to exploit the resources in outer space. Called “Space Act”, it allows them not only to prospect for metals on asteroids and planets, but also to extract and sell them.
As reality overtakes anticipation, a goldsmith on a screen explores the materiality of an element with sensitives gestures: Hands palpate, hesitate, massage, manipulate, and feel in a vain and utopian search.
The wheel of fortune is spinning. In the foreground, real, iridescent, metallic pebbles, seem from the future. Chercheuses d’or create a sense of strangeness between desire, illusion and speculation. Through the way it is arranged the installation plays with ambiguity.
This work functions as a decoy. It raises about the value we place on gold, about the limit of territorial resources and their depletion.
Vue de l’exposition Melting pot / Exhibition view Melting pot, CACY, Yverdon (CH), 2023
An American law allows private companies the right to exploit the resources in outer space. Called “Space Act”, it allows them not only to prospect for metals on asteroids and planets, but also to extract and sell them.
As reality overtakes anticipation, a goldsmith on a screen explores the materiality of an element with sensitives gestures: Hands palpate, hesitate, massage, manipulate, and feel in a vain and utopian search.
The wheel of fortune is spinning. In the foreground, real, iridescent, metallic pebbles, seem from the future. Chercheuses d’or create a sense of strangeness between desire, illusion and speculation. Through the way it is arranged the installation plays with ambiguity.
This work functions as a decoy. It raises about the value we place on gold, about the limit of territorial resources and their depletion.
Extrait de la vidéo Chercheuses d’or et détail pièce en grès émaillé
Extract from the video Chercheuses d’or (Gold diggers) and detail of glazed stoneware piece
Cette oeuvre a été réalisée en collaboration avec la céramiste et artiste contemporaine
This work was created in collaboration with contemporary ceramist and artist
Michèle Rochat.
Chercheuses d’or, 2023
Installation médias mixtes
pièces en grès émaillés, 3 tirages Riso, vidéo couleur HD sans son
Mixed-media installation
glazed stoneware pieces, 3 risography prints, HD colour video without sound
Dimensions variables, boucle 6’
Variable dimensions, 6’ loop
Melting Pot
Commissaire / Curator: Patricia Glave
Centre d’art contemporain CACY Yverdon(CH) 2023
Photos: © Emile Barret