Suis-moi, j’t’fuis
et rond et rond
petit pataco_
Petite pinède musquée
voyage
à l’arrière des taxis guya_ais.
Quizas, quizas, quizas.
Des pat !
Waiti_g for the sun
Aristo’ féline
qui o_delline sous des cerisiers opaline
orgie divine
Une place libre –
élégant(e) fil(le) d’Orient
d’u_ métro nommé désir
Silk hair half-moon
Thousa_d chinese leafes’ dreams’ shores –
in the mood for…
Miss, 2016 - 2019
Recycled handmade paper (personal letter writing)
framed between two museum glasses /
29.7 x 38.4 x 0.4 cm each
Miss is a serial work. It is composed of six almost identical parts; same format, same materials.
But they are all different and unique. Its six parts correspond to six different people.
The artist recycled the epistolary correspondence he had with each of them (in a separate way) to make paper in an artisanal way.
After selection, only one sheet was kept and framed each time. On each one of them a watermark appears, in a more or less prominent way according to the memory of the lack, in the light.
They are all composed in the same way: the initial of the person, followed by a number of dashes. There are as many dashes as there are letters in each person's name.
This work is therefore as much the story of women as it is the story of missing women; women who have missed him. "Misses".