Le ciel est bleu
2020, wood, metal, pencil. Sculpture, 130 x 60 x 40 cm. Wall drawing: variable dimensions.
"Le ciel est bleu" is an installation which took shape from a strange harvest my boyfriend made. He used to collect a specific part of the vine plant. That year we also often talked a lot about electromagnetic waves, partly because of the arrival of the newest 5G wave emission. So the work starts from a reflection on the helplessness and ignorance that the common man has in the face of this invisible, intangible and omnipresent energy in the universe. I thus decide to reproduce a segment of electromagnetic wave that is surmounted by instruments created with the ends of vine shoots: a sensitive plant that, in order to support its branches, clings to wires or nearby objects. Since humans are also sensitive to the invisible, I thought of a way to perform any rituals necessary for the evocation or reception of the increasingly intense waves around us. The color blue also plays an important role, and the title underscores this, because in the spectrum of light it is precisely the blue waves that have the strongest energy, they make the electrons vibrate in particular and thus spread more in the earth's atmosphere, and this is what gives the characteristic blue color to the sky.
The second part of the work is a wall drawing made with blue wax crayons that depicts a wave composed of a multitude of imagined people's profiles that, by virtue of their mass and the direction that animates them, seem to be moving toward the near future.
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