Amourer
Banana fruit. variable size, 2019
One night I had a dream, I dreamed words, a non-existent french verb, “Amourer". I dreamed his declension in the present tense, and then a poem followed. I wrote all of it in my notebook the next day. Some time later I used to draw on banana peels for my children's snack. The two daily creations have thus melted into a ground installation, inaugurated in 2019 at La Déviation in Marseille. Thirteen bananas are align on which are engraved the words of my dream. Gradually the banana’s skin oxidize and the text appears more legible, up to really darken. During the exhibition the spectators inadvertently trample some bananas by mistake, at the risk of falling, others open them or eat them. At last the fruits oxidize and the dream’s words disappear in the accomplished maturation.
