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Tibetan lakes, 2014

 

Single demonstration

(lake Rakshastal on Bosphorus)

Photographer: David Seguin

 

This work relates a sort of fictional and individual protest where the artist holds a representation of a tibetan lake engraved on a metal panel. this photo makes a connexion between two waters : one being the turkish water of the river bosphorus which is in the Turkish public domain but submitted to the rule of some commercial international law; the other water is the tibetan lake rakshastal which is represented and engraved on the panel.

By this staged situation, the shape of the lake which appears as a black spot, is claimed as a political land.

Lake Gozha Tso / Lake Zabuye / Lake Zahri Namco / Lake Rakshastal

4 wooden tables, 4 inkjet print on fine art paper

Each table 50 x 50 x 105 cm , 5+1 AP

 

Four Tibetan lakes are depicted as mapped territories with precise borders whereas they belong to a natural register with fluctuating borders due to their liquid nature.

Lakes Zhari Namco & Rakshatal, Tibet. 2014. Engraved aluminium boards

 

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