HD video, 16:9, 3′ 05”, color video, no autoplay, no loop
tu seras citoyen
Over a backdrop of classical songs from separatist European regions, Tu seras citoyen shows a borderless European map alongside desolate, snow-covered countryside landscapes. The video plays on a laptop at the centre of the space, with no loop and no autoplay, leaving the viewer to decide whether or not to play it, and whether that is even permitted.
part of solo exhibition Haut les mains!, at EAC centre d’art contemporain (les halles), CH, 2018
HD video, 16:9, 3′ 05”, color video, no autoplay, no loop
Haut les mains! unfolds as a logical sequence around Index, a gold-leafed wooden panel stating ten instructions whose underlying principles are dissected throughout the exhibition via a lexical field of colour, material, sound and image. From 1 to 5 is a set of five drawings paired with From 6 to 10, five monochromes, each built on a colour and/or material that forms the series it answers to.
Here gold is treated as the universal embodiment of the dominant paradigm: distorted, cracked, diverted from its function as a marker of prestige to carry a different symbolic economy.
73 x 100 cm, poplar, chalk, graphite, gold 23k
Exhibition view: Haut les mains!, EAC (Les Halles), Porrentruy, CH, 2018
46 x 33 cm, poplar, chalk, graphite, oil paint, gold 23k
Exhibition view: Haut les mains!, EAC (Les Halles), Porrentruy, CH, 2018
46 x 33 cm, poplar, chalk, graphite, oil paint, gold 23k
Exhibition view: Haut les mains!, EAC (Les Halles), Porrentruy, CH, 2018
ADRIANE MORARD 