Achrone
Video film 2011 (Dubaï)
12 minutes in loop, color and B&W, sound without dialogue
La nuit, des ouvriers creusent le sable dans une fosse. À l'aube, autour d'eux, se dressent les immenses tours d'une ville futuriste. Peu à peu, les activités humaines ralentissent, des détails apparaissent, des pierres se détachent, le sable coule, les sols se désagrègent. Fragile sur ces bases, la ville semble être dans un temps paradoxal de destruction et de construction, une future ruine appelée à se dissoudre.
At night, workers dig the sand in a pit. At dawn, around them, the immense towers of a futuristic city raise themselves. Gradually human activities slow down, details appear, stones get loose, the sand pours, grounds disintegrate. Fragile on these bases, the city appears to be in a paradoxical time of destruction and construction, a future ruin called to dissolve.
"Filmed in 2008 in Dubaï during the economic collapse, from night to day, Achrone documents construction sites to echo a paradoxical state of simultaneous growth and deterioration. According to the artist, the French Adjective ‘achrone’- linked to ‘Achronology’- stems «from phyisics and from medicine, (and) indicates a region which it is impossible to observe a precise temporality». Achrone explores the constantly mutating exchange systems of our global economy."
Liz Munsell Curator Museum of Fine Arts Boston, 2012
Ground
2012 (Dubaï construction sites)
Photographic series
Lambda print on satine paper, 42 x 60 cm
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