SOCIAL HARMONY

« Utopian Schemes embody a desire for social harmony, but they are inevitably based on repression »

(David Reisman, in Texte zur Kunst, n° 21, 1996.)

« Harmony comes from the Latin word harmonia, meaning « arrangement ». Each element that is part of the installation is regarded as a small arrangement with reality. A structure that contains an architectural form evokes and hybridizes the gym, the temple, the retirement home and one of these cases studies houses, these Californian modernist houses that were offering a raking light in the entire house. In each of these cases, it will be an architectural utopia, a thought based on an ideal of social harmony, yet that would have endured the affects of time and would contain the promises and the failures of the project. Nothing is lost. We have to live with that. The shape turns into a spaceship and initiates the ongoing plot. Under the light of the green neon, perfumed sticks plunged into a « vanilla-scented » liquid represent the appeasement of the low-cost domestic space. Through the window, the liquid contained in plastic bottles could also be a potion absorbed quickly, mix of cheap vodka and energy drink prepared by young people who stave off their boredom. Seen from the outside, the scale model lit by LED evokes a real estate agency. A real estate agency that would only sell a sort of social science fiction that tries to update structures and control mechanisms of bodies and stories. »