Oubliée #5 from the Oubliée series of the Réfléchissons-y… project.
Oubliée ( Forgotten )
Réfléchissons-y… ( Let’s think about it…)
The Oubliée series evokes lost lives, the sadness of loss, the presence of death. It reflects the lack of consideration for taking care of ourselves and our environment.
The artwork Oubliée #5 is composed of rusty metal residues, recycled paper pulp and a silk veil.
The accumulation of multiple aggregates with a concrete-like gray appearance around a simple metal structure, covered with a silk veil, gains significance when associated with its name: Oubliée #… Those are the lives, disappeared, whose bodies can never be recovered.
The rusty metal embodies the concept of the brutality of destruction, the passage of time, and abandonment. The recycled paper pulp, in the form of layers, represents the lost lives and the silk threads evoke the soul of each vanished being.
The use of paper as a material allows me to work on the perception of the artwork's density and to create metaphors around the fragility of life and its transience. The layers, appearing to be aggregates of concrete, suggesting to the observer a certain mass and immutability , even though it is not the case. Only the weight of the metal elements adds a material density to the artwork. These same layers accentuate the perception of the complete disappearance of human lives, where only a veil of the soul persists to exist.
The Oubliée series is a testament to what we should commit to avoiding.
