ART or DESIGN: the textile is used as representation of something which wore someone, life form which is missing
TEMPORARY or PERMANENT
LARGE SCALE or SMALL SCALE
TRANSFORMING and/or DEFINING and/or FORMING
IMMERSIVE and/or DISTANT
PATTERN and/or COLOUR and/or REPETITION and/or SHAPE
You’ll see that, in addition to the garments, the noise of heartbeats permeates the
exhibition. Why do you think this might be?
It is a collection of heartbeats as Christian says in the interview https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lv7tatnhFAc&feature=youtu.be. The heartbeats when I was watching the clip were a little bit disturbing to me. I can imagine the atmosphere when walking there throughout the show. The heartbeats are like drums announcing the passing time in combination with the garments our path to the end - death.
To what extent are the textiles transformed into something other than fabric?
The textiles can represent death people and the squares their grave as it is described in https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2010/jan/17/christian-boltanski-personnnes-paris-review. What is a story behind the textiles, who wore it, what happened to them, that would be questions which can appear in my mind? There is the hand of God which is lifting a group of garments to the roof to be immediately let to fall down. It is like a searching who can live or who can not, I just guess, heaven and hell.
What’s the significance of the installation title – and of the mechanical grabber?
Personnes - a French word for people and the same time nobody. Perfect title connection between the passed people an people visiting the show. The life form walking between garments with heartbeats reminding the mortality. The grabber is a process of chance to be alive or dead. Something else decides it.
What associations does this work conjure up in your mind?
The pile of garments remind me the piles in a concentration camp. The Holocaust. The wars. There is a feeling of a form of sorting systems. It is the grid, who decided what a piece will be there and there and why some are on the pile? Rasicms? Could be.
The wasting came to my mind as well but it was not mentioned in researched materials.
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