Stories of Memory

Art installation

2003-2004

Creation of 5 panels illuminated by a hallogen 

4 photos of legs hung on each panel 

printed on paper for reprography 

size of photos: 29.7 cm * 42 cm

panel size : 1500 cm *100cm

Paris Sorbonne University , Paris , France

 

Explanation :

This installation was produced as part of a Master's degree at the University of Plastic Arts at the Sorbonne in Paris. 

The idea was to re-create fake scars on the legs of dead people. A memorium or an inventory of scars. Between the fake and the real, the aim of my installation is to question a certain aesthetic of reality, to convert ordinary space into an extraordinary space in order to achieve disturbing human resemblances. Here the artist questions collective and individual memory in the face of war crimes and the aesthetic space appropriated for it.