A site specific installation created in a disused power station along the Oka riverside. “ I walked around the site where I took pictures of objects I found.

I then painted the objects in two colours. White for the objects that were directly related to people’s lives (i.e.: boots, bottles, etc…), I chose this colours as an analogy to ghosts, past life traces, reminders of what was once. I painted red the objects that were part of machinery, as this colour is usually associated with danger (as in real physical danger to the human body but also as a warning sign of people’s dependency on industrialisation).

Once painted I used the objects for an installation on the site. Hanging up the white objects in the air above the red objects resting on the floor. This work intent to reflect on the decline of industries in the area, as well as on the re-use of empty building (as a reinsertion into our lives, a shifting of uses to accommodate society’s volatile economy)”

The use of found objects confronted the audience with vestiges of the former activity of building, like small “prove” of history, which I re-actualise by “bringing them back to life”.

I painting the objects I found on the site and used them in conjunction with other materials