Intro:
"In the night, beneath the relentless uproar of the wisdom of madmen, I open myself to the infinite, guiding your soul toward the depths of time and oblivion. Your position within these targeted works becomes a phenomenon of solitude and isolation—an expression of both openness and confinement. When man no longer recognizes himself, he flees this urban paradigm, leaving behind a trace, forming the unity of an opening and a confinement."
The project consists of the installation of a monumental collage representing a crack (either on the wall or on the floor). Within its core appears the story of humankind—its creation, its destruction, and its rebirth.
The aim of the artwork is to raise awareness of a world increasingly fractured, burying the memory of the living.
Symbolism:
The crack symbolizes an opening into the imaginary world, from which its contents escape. By its very form, it evokes a destabilizing situation—namely, the growing human and territorial conflicts.
Its connotation plunges us into the desiccation of humanist thought, of moral values — leading to a possible physical and mental disintegration.
Through this crack, we hear the sound of broken walls, the cracking of collapse, the trembling voices in distress facing the madness of kings, the constant anguish that haunts us. The crack thus becomes an echo of our fragile and weakened geopolitical reality, filled with uncertainty and often leading to other realms—such as the land of the dead.
It is a poetic and dramatic decoding, a denunciation of forgetfulness and the loss of lives and meaning in the wars that scar our world.
As Freud’s concept of the slip of the tongue suggests, what falls into a crack is condemned to be forgotten and lost. The work echoes this idea, presenting a compilation of architectural writings—fragments of the richness of our world, of our history—falling into this Freudian chasm.
The piece also reinforces the triptych of life/death/rebirth, for we may consider that there exists a crack in everything around us, and it is through this crack that the light enters, to comfort us and guide us toward new hopes—a world in harmony.
Through its scale and length ( between 9m up to 15m), the work underscores the gravity of the situation in which the world now finds itself. It could be installed on one of the walls of the Arsenal,the crack could be positioned within a space, breaking through the floor and dividing it in two.
