MIRADOR, 2010
installation
Eugene Pelletier et Julie Brusley
wood and waste coming from the recycling center of Sita-Suez of Colomiers, installation: 800x230x230cm
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In an industrial area, given to the spectators as an object they contributed to create, a watchtower is constructed in front of the waste disposal from which its materials are from. The residual object, the scrap, becomes by transfer the raw material of the piece; as the edifice is just completed it is brought down and recycled.
The “point of view” is the corner stone of this work in progress. It constitutes the etymological translation of watchtower, as the stake of this installation which invites to take another look at the processes of creation and destruction.
And in a place where walls succeeds to fences to hide the paradoxes of an economical system, the watchtower appears like the exacerbation a divide between two antagonists realities, one economical and productive, known by all its actors, the other social and ecologist from which the spectator is the depositary. Taken to task, the latter becomes the witness or the guardian of his existence condition.
Installation presented in the exhibition Interstice, dialogue autorisé entre art vidéo et installation, industrial area en Jacca, Colomiers (10 November 2010). Exhibition supported by the DRAC Midi-Pyrénées, the Midi- Pyrénées region, Toulouse’s town hall, Colomers’ town hall, the contemporary art center of Colomiers, L’Espace des arts, the residency le BBB, Sita-Suez Environnement.
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Photos:
1. construction of the watchtower
2. view of the watchtower
3. view of the watchtower from the waste disposal
4-6. return of the materials back to the waste disposal after the watchtower has been brought down, destruction of the remains of the structure by a bulldozer and loading of the wood in a semi-trailer to recycle the chipboard (400km away).
