EUROPA! EUROPA!
Road asphalt, granite, rock, ties
104 elements, 480 × 850 × 50 cm
Circuit | Circuit Centre d'art contemporain [→] | Lausanne | 2017

Road asphalt rubble is collected and cleaned. Using ties, string, and electrical wires of all colours, each piece of rubble is tied up on all sides like a packet. All the rubble is hung side by side, at regular intervals, on a wall in the exhibition space. The wires consist of a disparate and colourful mixture of other wires, knotted and tied together. When hung, they form a dense, repetitive vertical grid in the space. A heavy accumulation, a weight distributed along the length of the wall. The installation invites us to see as many bodies and ballasts as there are, each of which could, by extension, be a person. These hundreds of suspended pieces of rubble form a compact mass representing a community of solidarity, but also as many individual entities and torn destinies. The links in EUROPA! EUROPA! underlie accidental rupture, tearing, war.

Construction crew: Marcello Silvio Busato, Pablo Perez , Aso Mohammadi, Patrick Gross, François Kohler
Collection of the City of Geneve (FMAC, Fonds Municipal d'Art Contemporain, Genève)
Photo: David Gagnebin de Bons