Take 1 (Photo Session 1: 3 july 2011)
Ninth iteration, open edition
Summer 2011
White pigments, concentrated washing-up liquid
Exhibition site: Rue Koenigshoffen (beneath the A35 motorway bridge), 67200 Strasbourg/Koenigshoffen, France
Overall dimensions: 551 cm (left side) and 599 cm (right side) × 3776 cm
Painting dimensions: 422 cm × 61 cm (top) and 67 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.
Take 1a (Photo Session 2: 8 july 2011)
Ninth iteration, open edition
Summer 2011
White pigments, concentrated washing-up liquid
Exhibition site: Rue Koenigshoffen (beneath the A35 motorway bridge), 67200 Strasbourg/Koenigshoffen, France
Overall dimensions: 551 cm (left side) and 599 cm (right side) × 3776 cm
Original dimensions of the painting: 422 cm × 61 cm (top) and 67 cm (bottom)
Extract 1a (Photo Session 3: 14 july 2011)
Ninth iteration, open edition
Summer 2011
White pigments, concentrated washing-up liquid
Exhibition site: Rue Koenigshoffen (beneath the A35 motorway bridge), 67200 Strasbourg/Koenigshoffen, France
Overall dimensions: 551 cm (left side) and 599 cm (right side) × 3776 cm
Original dimensions of the painting: 422 cm × 61 cm (top) and 67 cm (bottom)
Extract 2c (Photo Session 1: 3 july 2011)
Ninth iteration, open edition
Summer 2011
White pigments, concentrated washing-up liquid
Exhibition site: Rue Koenigshoffen (beneath the A35 motorway bridge), 67200 Strasbourg/Koenigshoffen, France
Overall dimensions: 551 cm (left side) and 599 cm (right side) × 3776 cm
Painting dimensions: 422 cm × 61 cm (top) and 67 cm (bottom)
Extract 3a (Photo Session 1: 3 july 2011)
Ninth iteration, open edition
Summer 2011
White pigments, concentrated washing-up liquid
Exhibition site: Rue Koenigshoffen (beneath the A35 motorway bridge), 67200 Strasbourg/Koenigshoffen, France
Overall dimensions: 551 cm (left side) and 599 cm (right side) × 3776 cm
Painting dimensions: 422 cm × 61 cm (top) and 67 cm (bottom)
Extract 3c (Photo Session 1: 3 july 2011)
Ninth iteration, open edition
Summer 2011
White pigments, concentrated washing-up liquid
Exhibition site: Rue Koenigshoffen (beneath the A35 motorway bridge), 67200 Strasbourg/Koenigshoffen, France
Overall dimensions: 551 cm (left side) and 599 cm (right side) × 3776 cm
Painting dimensions: 422 cm × 61 cm (top) and 67 cm (bottom)
Extract 3d (Photo Session 1: 3 july 2011)
Ninth iteration, open edition
Summer 2011
White pigments, concentrated washing-up liquid
Exhibition site: Rue Koenigshoffen (beneath the A35 motorway bridge), 67200 Strasbourg/Koenigshoffen, France
Overall dimensions: 551 cm (left side) and 599 cm (right side) × 3776 cm
Painting dimensions: 422 cm × 61 cm (top) and 67 cm (bottom)
Take 2a (Photo Session 2: 8 july 2011)
Ninth iteration, open edition
Summer 2011
White pigments, concentrated washing-up liquid
Exhibition site: Rue Koenigshoffen (beneath the A35 motorway bridge), 67200 Strasbourg/Koenigshoffen, France
Overall dimensions: 551 cm (left side) and 599 cm (right side) × 3776 cm
Original dimensions of the painting: 422 cm × 61 cm (top) and 67 cm (bottom)
Take 2b (Photo Session 2: 8 july 2011)
Ninth iteration, open edition
Summer 2011
White pigments, concentrated washing-up liquid
Exhibition site: Rue Koenigshoffen (beneath the A35 motorway bridge), 67200 Strasbourg/Koenigshoffen, France
Overall dimensions: 551 cm (left side) and 599 cm (right side) × 3776 cm
Original dimensions of the painting: 422 cm × 61 cm (top) and 67 cm (bottom)
Extract 2a (Photo Session 3: 14 july 2011)
Ninth iteration, open edition
Summer 2011
White pigments, concentrated washing-up liquid
Exhibition site: Rue Koenigshoffen (beneath the A35 motorway bridge), 67200 Strasbourg/Koenigshoffen, France
Overall dimensions: 551 cm (left side) and 599 cm (right side) × 3776 cm
Original dimensions of the painting: 422 cm × 61 cm (top) and 67 cm (bottom)
Extract 2d (Photo Session 3: 14 july 2011)
Ninth iteration, open edition
Summer 2011
White pigments, concentrated washing-up liquid
Exhibition site: Rue Koenigshoffen (beneath the A35 motorway bridge), 67200 Strasbourg/Koenigshoffen, France
Overall dimensions: 551 cm (left side) and 599 cm (right side) × 3776 cm
Original dimensions of the painting: 422 cm × 61 cm (top) and 67 cm (bottom)
Extract 2a (Photo Session 4: 29 july 2011)
Ninth iteration, open edition
Summer 2011
White pigments, concentrated washing-up liquid
Exhibition site: Rue Koenigshoffen (beneath the A35 motorway bridge), 67200 Strasbourg/Koenigshoffen, France
Overall dimensions: 551 cm (left side) and 599 cm (right side) × 3776 cm
Original dimensions of the painting: 422 cm × 61 cm (top) and 67 cm (bottom)
Extract 2c (Photo Session 4: 29 july 2011)
Ninth iteration, open edition
Summer 2011
White pigments, concentrated washing-up liquid
Exhibition site: Rue Koenigshoffen (beneath the A35 motorway bridge), 67200 Strasbourg/Koenigshoffen, France
Overall dimensions: 551 cm (left side) and 599 cm (right side) × 3776 cm
Original dimensions of the painting: 422 cm × 61 cm (top) and 67 cm (bottom)
Extracts 2d, 1b, 1c (left to right)
Photo Sessions 1: 3 July / 2: 8 July / 3: 14 July 2011
Ninth iteration, open edition
Summer 2011
White pigments, concentrated washing-up liquid
Exhibition site: Rue Koenigshoffen (beneath the A35 motorway bridge), 67200 Strasbourg/Koenigshoffen, France
Overall dimensions: 551 cm (left side) and 599 cm (right side) × 3776 cm
Original dimensions of the painting: 422 cm × 61 cm (top) and 67 cm (bottom)
Extracts 1b, 1a, 1a (left to right)
Photo Sessions 4: 29 July / 5: 8 August / 6: 17 August 2011
Ninth iteration, open edition
Summer 2011
White pigments, concentrated washing-up liquid
Exhibition site: Rue Koenigshoffen (beneath the A35 motorway bridge), 67200 Strasbourg/Koenigshoffen, France
Overall dimensions: 551 cm (left side) and 599 cm (right side) × 3776 cm
Original dimensions of the painting: 422 cm × 61 cm (top) and 67 cm (bottom)
Extracts 1a, 1b, 1a (left to right)
Photo Sessions 7: 26 December 2011 / 8: 15 April / 9: 7 July 2012
Ninth iteration, open edition
Summer 2011
White pigments, concentrated washing-up liquid
Exhibition site: Rue Koenigshoffen (beneath the A35 motorway bridge), 67200 Strasbourg/Koenigshoffen, France
Overall dimensions: 551 cm (left side) and 599 cm (right side) × 3776 cm
Original dimensions of the painting: 422 cm × 61 cm (top) and 67 cm (bottom)
Extracts 1c, 1, 1 (left to right)
Photo Sessions 10: 18 August / 11: 9 September / 12: 11 November 2012
Ninth iteration, open edition
Summer 2011
White pigments, concentrated washing-up liquid
Exhibition site: Rue Koenigshoffen (beneath the A35 motorway bridge), 67200 Strasbourg/Koenigshoffen, France
Overall dimensions: 551 cm (left side) and 599 cm (right side) × 3776 cm
Original dimensions of the painting: 422 cm × 61 cm (top) and 67 cm (bottom)