First iteration – Summer 2008
Take 1 (Photo Session 1: 25 August 2008)
White pigments, concentrated washing-up liquid
Exhibition site: Ruelle de l’Abreuvoir, 67000 Strasbourg, France
Overall dimensions: 168 cm (left side) and 185 cm (right side) × 406 cm
Painting dimensions: 45.39 cm × 18.78 cm (top) and 20.68 cm (bottom)
This work springs from the desire to release painting from its customary shelter. Where exhibition usually means protection — a closed case that delays decay, a cradle that nurses the picture — here, the painting is cast into the open air. Stripped of its safe niche, it must now watch over its own survival, confronting a world that grants it neither refuge nor mercy.
One might assume that such an exile would demand reinforcement, a bolstering of resilience to prolong its life. Yet the opposite occurs: mingled with washing-up liquid, the pigments become fragile, hypersensitive, at the mercy of the slightest turn in the weather. Rain rinses them away, wind wears them down.
Like the trunk of a tree recording the passage of seasons in its rings, this painting archives the fleeting moods of the sky. Each downpour, each breath of air, each shift in light leaves its trace. The work becomes nomadic, perpetually in exile. It follows the course of the rain, escaping its rectilinear frame, submitting to another law: gravity. Human geometry dissolves, and in its descent remain only vestiges, filaments, until lower down another painting begins to take shape — recomposed by time, chance, and the whim of its support.
The support endures, the guest fades. Yet what has vanished may return: fugacity itself becomes the promise of renewal. Every effacement summons a rebirth, as though the ephemeral secretly bore the seed of eternity.
K.L.
Extract 1 (Photo Session 1: 25 August 2008)
White pigments, concentrated washing-up liquid
Painting dimensions: 45.39 cm × 18.78 cm (top) and 20.68 cm (bottom)
Extract 2a (Photo Session 1: 25 August 2008)
White pigments, concentrated washing-up liquid
Fourth iteration – Winter 2009/2010
Take 1 (Photo session 1: 6 December 2009)
White pigments, concentrated washing-up liquid
Exhibition site: Ruelle de l’Abreuvoir, 67000 Strasbourg, France
Overall dimensions: 168 cm (left side) and 185 cm (right side) × 406 cm
Painting dimensions: 45.39 cm × 18.78 cm (top) and 20.68 cm (bottom)
Extract 1 (Photo session 1: 6 December 2009)
White pigments, concentrated washing-up liquid
Painting dimensions: 45.39 cm × 18.78 cm (top) and 20.68 cm (bottom)
Extract 3 (Photo session 1: 6 December 2009)
White pigments, concentrated washing-up liquid
Painting dimensions: 45.39 cm × 18.78 cm (top) and 20.68 cm (bottom)
Take 1 (Photo session 2: 13 December 2009)
White pigments, concentrated washing-up liquid
Exhibition site: Ruelle de l’Abreuvoir, 67000 Strasbourg, France
Overall dimensions: 168 cm (left side) and 185 cm (right side) × 406 cm
Painting dimensions: 45.39 cm × 18.78 cm (top) and 20.68 cm (bottom)
Extract 1 (Photo session 2: 13 December 2009)
White pigments, concentrated washing-up liquid
Exhibition site: Ruelle de l’Abreuvoir, 67000 Strasbourg, France
Painting dimensions: 45.39 cm × 18.78 cm (top) and 20.68 cm (bottom)
Extract 3 (Photo session 2: 13 December 2009)
White pigments, concentrated washing-up liquid
Sixth iteration – Spring 2011
Take 1 (Photo session 1: 26 March 2011)
White pigments, concentrated washing-up liquid
Exhibition site: Ruelle de l’Abreuvoir, 67000 Strasbourg, France
Overall dimensions: 168 cm (left side) and 185 cm (right side) × 406 cm
Painting dimensions: 45.39 cm × 18.78 cm (top) and 20.68 cm (bottom)Photo session 1: 26 March 2011
Extract 1 (Photo session 1: 26 March 2011)
White pigments, concentrated washing-up liquid
Painting dimensions: 45.39 cm × 18.78 cm (top) and 20.68 cm (bottom)Photo session 1: 26 March 2011
Take 1 (Photo session 2: 31 March 2011)
White pigments, concentrated washing-up liquid
Exhibition site: Ruelle de l’Abreuvoir, 67000 Strasbourg, France
Overall dimensions: 168 cm (left side) and 185 cm (right side) × 406 cm
Painting dimensions: 45.39 cm × 18.78 cm (top) and 20.68 cm (bottom)
Extract 1 (Photo session 2: 31 March 2011)
White pigments, concentrated washing-up liquid
Painting dimensions: 45.39 cm × 18.78 cm (top) and 20.68 cm (bottom)
Extract 2 (Photo session 2: 31 March 2011)
White pigments, concentrated washing-up liquid
Painting dimensions: 45.39 cm × 18.78 cm (top) and 20.68 cm (bottom)
Take 1 (Photo session 3: 8 April 2011)
White pigments, concentrated washing-up liquid
Exhibition site: Ruelle de l’Abreuvoir, 67000 Strasbourg, France
Overall dimensions: 168 cm (left side) and 185 cm (right side) × 406 cm
Painting dimensions: 45.39 cm × 18.78 cm (top) and 20.68 cm (bottom)
Extract 1 (Photo session 3: 8 April 2011)
White pigments, concentrated washing-up liquid
Painting dimensions: 45.39 cm × 18.78 cm (top) and 20.68 cm (bottom)
Extract 2 (Photo session 3: 8 April 2011)
White pigments, concentrated washing-up liquid
Painting dimensions: 45.39 cm × 18.78 cm (top) and 20.68 cm (bottom)
Seventh iteration – Spring/Summer 2011
Take 1 (Photo session 1: 18 June 2011)
White pigments, concentrated washing-up liquid
Exhibition site: Ruelle de l’Abreuvoir, 67000 Strasbourg, France
Overall dimensions: 168 cm (left side) and 185 cm (right side) × 406 cm
Painting dimensions: 45.39 cm × 18.78 cm (top) and 20.68 cm (bottom)
Extract 1 (Photo session 1: 18 June 2011)
White pigments, concentrated washing-up liquid
Painting dimensions: 45.39 cm × 18.78 cm (top) and 20.68 cm (bottom)
Extract 2a (Photo session 1: 18 June 2011)
White pigments, concentrated washing-up liquid
Painting dimensions: 45.39 cm × 18.78 cm (top) and 20.68 cm (bottom)
Extract 2b (Photo session 1: 18 June 2011)
White pigments, concentrated washing-up liquid
Painting dimensions: 45.39 cm × 18.78 cm (top) and 20.68 cm (bottom)
Take 1 (Photo session 2: 23 June 2011)
White pigments, concentrated washing-up liquid
Exhibition site: Ruelle de l’Abreuvoir, 67000 Strasbourg, France
Overall dimensions: 168 cm (left side) and 185 cm (right side) × 406 cm
Painting dimensions: 45.39 cm × 18.78 cm (top) and 20.68 cm (bottom)
Extract 1 (Photo session 2: 23 June 2011)
White pigments, concentrated washing-up liquid
Painting dimensions: 45.39 cm × 18.78 cm (top) and 20.68 cm (bottom)
Extract 2 (Photo session 2: 23 June 2011)
White pigments, concentrated washing-up liquid
Painting dimensions: 45.39 cm × 18.78 cm (top) and 20.68 cm (bottom)
Eighth iteration – Summer/Autumn 2011 & Winter 2011/2012
Take 1 (Photo session 1: 3 September 2011)
White pigments, concentrated washing-up liquid
Exhibition site: Ruelle de l’Abreuvoir, 67000 Strasbourg, France
Overall dimensions: 168 cm (left side) and 185 cm (right side) × 406 cm
Painting dimensions: 45.39 cm × 18.78 cm (top) and 20.68 cm (bottom)
Take 1 (Photo session 2: 5 September 2011)
White pigments, concentrated washing-up liquid
Exhibition site: Ruelle de l’Abreuvoir, 67000 Strasbourg, France
Overall dimensions: 168 cm (left side) and 185 cm (right side) × 406 cm
Painting dimensions: 45.39 cm × 18.78 cm (top) and 20.68 cm (bottom)
Extract 1 (Photo session 2: 5 September 2011)
White pigments, concentrated washing-up liquid
Painting dimensions: 45.39 cm × 18.78 cm (top) and 20.68 cm (bottom)
Extract 2b (Photo session 2: 5 September 2011)
White pigments, concentrated washing-up liquid
Painting dimensions: 45.39 cm × 18.78 cm (top) and 20.68 cm (bottom)
Take 1 (Photo session 3: 7 September 2011)
White pigments, concentrated washing-up liquid
Exhibition site: Ruelle de l’Abreuvoir, 67000 Strasbourg, France
Overall dimensions: 168 cm (left side) and 185 cm (right side) × 406 cm
Painting dimensions: 45.39 cm × 18.78 cm (top) and 20.68 cm (bottom)
Extract 1 (Photo session 3: 7 September 2011)
White pigments, concentrated washing-up liquid
Painting dimensions: 45.39 cm × 18.78 cm (top) and 20.68 cm (bottom)
Extract 2b (Photo session 3: 7 September 2011)
White pigments, concentrated washing-up liquid
Painting dimensions: 45.39 cm × 18.78 cm (top) and 20.68 cm (bottom)
Take 1 (Photo session 4: 7 October 2011)
White pigments, concentrated washing-up liquid
Exhibition site: Ruelle de l’Abreuvoir, 67000 Strasbourg, France
Overall dimensions: 168 cm (left side) and 185 cm (right side) × 406 cm
Painting dimensions: 45.39 cm × 18.78 cm (top) and 20.68 cm (bottom)
Extract 1 (Photo session 4: 7 October 2011)
White pigments, concentrated washing-up liquid
Painting dimensions: 45.39 cm × 18.78 cm (top) and 20.68 cm (bottom)
Extract 2 (Photo session 4: 7 October 2011)
White pigments, concentrated washing-up liquid
Painting dimensions: 45.39 cm × 18.78 cm (top) and 20.68 cm (bottom)
Extract 4 (Photo session 4: 7 October 2011)
White pigments, concentrated washing-up liquid
Painting dimensions: 45.39 cm × 18.78 cm (top) and 20.68 cm (bottom)
Take 1 (Photo session 5: 18 October 2011)
White pigments, concentrated washing-up liquid
Exhibition site: Ruelle de l’Abreuvoir, 67000 Strasbourg, France
Overall dimensions: 168 cm (left side) and 185 cm (right side) × 406 cm
Painting dimensions: 45.39 cm × 18.78 cm (top) and 20.68 cm (bottom)
Extract 1 (Photo session 5: 18 October 2011)
White pigments, concentrated washing-up liquid
Painting dimensions: 45.39 cm × 18.78 cm (top) and 20.68 cm (bottom)
Take 1 (Photo session 6: 1 February 2012)
White pigments, concentrated washing-up liquid
Exhibition site: Ruelle de l’Abreuvoir, 67000 Strasbourg, France
Overall dimensions: 168 cm (left side) and 185 cm (right side) × 406 cm
Painting dimensions: 45.39 cm × 18.78 cm (top) and 20.68 cm (bottom)
Extract 1 (Photo session 6: 1 February 2012)
White pigments, concentrated washing-up liquid
Exhibition site: Ruelle de l’Abreuvoir, 67000 Strasbourg, France
Overall dimensions: 168 cm (left side) and 185 cm (right side) × 406 cm
Painting dimensions: 45.39 cm × 18.78 cm (top) and 20.68 cm (bottom)