Promise Park, 2010-2011 Installation. 3 videos, postcards, photograph, wood, paint Views of the work in the exhibition Yes, we don't, at l'Institut d'Art Contemporain de Villeurbanne / Rhône-Alpes, 2011 Photo : Blaise Adilon
Promise Park was originally produced and presented in the context of Ce qui vient, Ateliers de Rennes, Biennale d'art contemporain, Rennes, 2010
Promise Park, 2010 Work presented in Ce qui vient, Ateliers de Rennes, Biennale d'art contemporain, Rennes.
In the context of this Biennale, I asked for a plot of land to build on and scrap materials to build with. LaMotte Immobilier and Legendre Construction granted my wish. I worked on the site for six weeks, taking the park (in the broadest sense e.g. theme park, amusement park, human zoo, livestock park) as my starting point. The land was a mine whose resources I had to exploit to the fullest. Many holes were dug. Signs, attractions, architectural fragments dotted the landscape, as if to announce a great park in the making. The campfires had to be fed, and much of what went up ultimately served that purpose. At times, when it got really hot, the likes of Hieronymus Bosch, Grunewald and Saint Anthony crossed my mind. Those who actually saw the site don't have much to say about it. They saw nothing out of the ordinary...just a construction site that was never brought to completion. The venture survives only through some photos that I used to produce a line of postcards, souvenirs of a place no one knows. I sold these during the exhibition in a souvenir shop/snack bar custom made from the construction shack I had used on the site.
