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Video loop, 16mm color, 2min 05’
+ 4:3 TV monitor
In this video loop presented on a vintage TV, a hand gently brushes and reconstitutes the fragments of a conch shell on a concrete slab. The gesture, both delicate and repetitive, conjures the memory of an elsewhere against the rough surface of the present. Between Caribbean relic and urban landscape, the broken shell becomes a metaphor for uprooting and for the fragile bond between origin and territory.
This project has been produced as part of the Nationale Commission Les Regards du Grand Paris édition 7 from Ateliers Medicis and is part of the collections of Centre National des Art Plastiques (CNAP).