Taphonomie Familiale - Emma & Lucien 1914 - 1945 from the Taphonomie series of the Réfléchissons-y… project.
Réfléchissons-y… ( Let’s think about it…)
Taphonomie Familiale ( Familial Taphonomy)
A term proposed by Efremov in 1940, taphonomy is the study of burial in all its forms, leading to the formation of fossil deposits.
The artwork Taphonomie Familiale - Emma & Lucien 1914 - 1945 evokes the memory of past lives during the period from 1914 to 1945.
From the three slabs of the artwork emerge a multitude of small paper fragments in various forms, pinned.
It is exclusively composed of recycled paper pulp, family archives, and pins.
The recycled paper pulp represents the extracted blocks.
The family archives serve as markers of life from 1914 to 1945.
Pins embody the act of willful 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.
The slabs, which appear to be made of concrete, from which the family archives emerge, suggest to the observer a certain mass and permanence, even though it is not the case. The crevices covered with pages from old books, ration tickets, accompanied by the multitude of small fragments of family archives dating from 1914 to 1945, like insects preserved in entomologist's boxes, remind and tell, in small touches, what daily life was like of people during that time.
