Dieu est mort, 2010 - 2012

In situ artwork
Slate paint, permanent glue, dust generated over time, works of philosophy on a bench, furniture, vase and Virginia creeper /
242 x 244 x 68 cm
Private house, Narbonne (France)

       Although the quotations from the history of modern Western art are explicit here (Malevich, Rodin), they do not have an end in themselves; on the contrary, they act as pretexts for philosophical reflection, particularly on the invisible, the immaterial and the "unpresentable".

       Le Penseur by Rodin is a visual metaphor for what this exercise in cogito can be, and is thus invisible at first.
       Presented in the form of a work in progress, it only appears to the viewer over time; the time it takes for the dust, generated naturally by the comings and goings in the living room that hosts this creation, to settle on the glued part of the wall.

       This commission for a school teacher who is a philosopher by training can thus be read as a possible mise en images of the vision of a Nietzschean: God is dead.