WHEELPROZAC + WHEELRITALIN

Meditation wheel composed of antidepressant drugs boxes. Prozac is a drug used to treat major depressive disorder, obsessive-compulsive disorder, panic disorder, and premenstrual dysphoric. From 2001 to 2009, 34 million people received a prescription of this medicine, as a part of a huge social bio-control. Industrialised pharmacopeia constructs the contemporary psyche of people suffering from depression, by subjecting a portion of the population to “magic wheel” chemistry.

Meditation wheel composed of psycho-stimulant drugs boxes.

Ritalin is a drug used to treat attention deficit hyperactivity disorder in children. Industrialised pharmacopoeia constructs the contemporary psyche of post-industrial bio-children, who, therefore, are subject to the “magic wheel” of medicinal chemistry and drug manufacturing.

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.

MEDALS / Hot air balloon

1000 cards - Offset print

2014

This piece, distributed to the visitors, can be read both ways: as a medal and/or a hot-air balloon, depending on the direction we take the cards. Medals or hot-air balloons, heavy or light, terrestrial or aerial; the motif is neutral and does not specify any hierarchy or distinction.

DRONE

Video projection on 6 pink liquid detergent bottles

2014

Recorded by a US hunting drone in Afghanistan and later diffused on the Internet, this video is projected on a wall composed of 6 pink liquid soap bottles. In this installation, the “eye-machine”, imperialistic weapon that has become widespread, is associated with a domestic, mundane and hygienic object.

MIRROR OF THE REVOLTS #1

(Shelves, mirrors, engraved and painted metal plaques)

150 x 60cm, 2014

The dates, locations and geographical coordinates of three of the most recent and significant revolts that happened in 2014 are engraved on metal plaques fixed under each shelf.

We are going to enter a new era of « time of riots » (Badiou). These revolts arise as an inversion of the society, ruled by so-called the spectacular democracies, which look ‘stable’ and ‘resigned’ on the surface.

This piece proposes a reversed reading of right/left and up/down: mirrored reversal of the « reality ». These plaques are a discrete celebration.

Among the revolts emerging all over the world every week, (whose the number is rising up since a decade) these three revolts were chosen as symptoms of a more conservative Europe, witnessing the rise of repression and intolerance: Rising of far right wing / retention camps for migrants / repression of the poverty and the economy of survival.

1-Vienna, Austria, January 24, 2014

Several protesters were arrested during violent demonstrations against an annual ball in the famous Vienna’s imperial Hofburg palace that traditionally draws far right-wing figures. 6,000 demonstrators took to the streets of the Austrian capital to protest against the so-called Academics’ Ball, part of the annual Viennese ball season, which was hosted by the far-right Freedom Party. The organisation “Jetzt Zeichen Setzen!” (Take a Stand Now), which campaigns for remembrance of victims of Nazism, published an open letter against the ball signed by six Holocaust survivors. “As survivors of the Nazi era, we are stunned that the Hofburg, which belongs to the republic, is still opening its doors to representatives of extreme-right organisations from Austria and Europe,” it said. Nazi Germany in 1938 annexed Austria, whose 200 000-strong Jewish population was wiped out in the Holocaust.

2-Vincennes, France : February 14, 2014

After the revolts and fire in 2008 in the detention camp of Vincennes near Paris, a new rebellion appeared in February 14 : it proves the deplorable and inhuman condition of detention of those people inside camps becoming European rules of migratory fluxes administration.

3-Athens, Grece. March 13, 2014

The Athens University of Economics and Business, one of Greece’s leading educational institutions, has been shut down on the orders of the university’s senate following escalating clashes between police and illegal street vendors who sell their wares on the sidewalk outside the Patission Street campus. Perfect symbol of the clash between academic economics institutions, and the survival economic behaviour of the poverty.

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MIRROR OF THE REVOLTS #2

Engraved metal plaque

24 x 18cm, 2014

The dates, locations and geographical coordinates of the most recent and significant European revolts are engraved on metal plaques in this exhibition. But the display of the information is inversed. This one is the very recent plaque celebrating the Madrid “dignity march”. On 22nd of March tens of thousands citizens marched against the austerity and impotent Spanish government.

KOREA SATELLITE

Oil on canvas

150 x 128cm, 2013

Painting made from a satellite photograph of the North and South Korea. The three chromatic layers are discretely shifted. The two brother countries are separated by a frontier and two politico-ideological systems totally opposed to each other. This piece is a cartographic representation of schizophrenic radical politics.