Limite & abandon
Two fabric buoys, fabric chain
The yellow spherical buoy indicates to swimmers and boats the extent of a protected area so that they can enjoy their leisure activities in complete safety.
As a child, my pleasure was to swim to the farthest buoy in this area and hang on to it to float. I felt safe then, anchored to the bottom of the water. Surrendering to the movement of the waves, was added a deep sense of freedom. However, going beyond this buoy, unconsciously associated with the “limit”, with the danger, developed all kinds of fantasies (attacks of unknown forms from the depths) and awakened in me an anxiety of imminent death.
What interests me today, beyond the memory of this bodily and psychic experience, is how this limit which is materialized only visually by the object "buoy" translates the power of a physical container and psychic. So there is a desire to explore the weight of the psychic barriers that one poses or imposes on oneself in response to a given reality. Like the animal with its paws attached, which, once released, still thinks itself constrained and enslaved. Man is often himself chained to his primary fears which are universal.