Je m'en tamponne le coquillard, 2014
Stainless steel and ink on recycled toilet paper /
14 x 14 x 15 cm
Through this "disposable sculpture" and the use of an old French idiomatic expression as its title, the artist invites us to not care.
But of what? About artists, or even about art itself?
Beyond indirect scatological references, OliveOlivier uses two processes that are often at work in his art:
humour and tautology.
It is thanks to them that we better understand that the question of what to make fun of matters little.
Above all, the artist seems to be inviting us to bring our words into line with our actions, even in our most trivial everyday life.