Taphonomie Familiale 22 62 6 from the Taphonomie series of the Réfléchissons-y… project.
Réfléchissons-y… ( Let’s think about it…)
Taphonomie Familiale ( Familial Taphonomy )
A term coined by Efremov in 1940, taphonomy is the study of burial in all its forms, leading to the formation of fossil deposits.
The artworks in the Taphonomie series evoke the memory of past lives.
In the Taphonomie Familiale 22 62 6 artwork, from slabs emerge folds, lines, and traces, resembling artifacts shaped by humans. Embedded and compressed, they bear witness to lives lived and gone.
This artwork is exclusively composed of recycled paper pulp, family archives, and pins.
The recycled paper pulp represents the extracted blocks.
The recycled newspaper pulp represents the extracted blocks.
Family archives (photos) serve as markers of past lives.
Pins embody the willful act of preservation like the taxidermy.
The use of paper material allows me to work on the perception of the density of the artwork and to create metaphors around the fragility of life.
In the Taphonomie Familiale 22 62 6 artwork, the slabs that appear to be made of concrete with embedded photos suggest to the observer a certain mass and permanence even though it is not the case. The compression and embedding of these family photos intensify the perception of fossilized lives in an imperishable concrete matrix, reinforcing the sensation of confinement. Only a few pins seem to preserve these traces of human history, remnants of a family history gone for several decades.
