Feast

Both 75cm x 300cm
Paper, 2020

Exhibition at the Archeological Museum of Arlon, Belgium.

This random pattern is digitally designed with an algorithm and drawn on paper, a material chosen for its ephemerality and its ability to reflect the fragile process of historic preservation.

This cutting project takes as its starting point the diversity of patterns created by time on what we preserve from the past, and was placed among the museum collections that abound with magnificent examples of objects shaped by the years. Perceived here for its aesthetic qualities, the slow deterioration that time imposes on everything becomes a work of art. Time acts as an artist, leaving its imprint and sculpting what it will or will not leave for future generations. Some aspects remain, while others disappear forever.

The cut pattern is random and digitally generated by an algorithm, then transferred to a physical medium chosen for its transience, capable of reflecting the fragile randomness inherent in the process of preserving human history. Thus, the arbitrary nature of what history preserves and forgets is depicted in the delicacy of the medium, a metaphor for the arbitrariness of time, of what it keeps and lets go.

Le motif découpé est aléatoire et généré digitalement par un algorithme, puis reporté sur un support physique choisi pour son éphémérité, apte à refléter le hasard fragile inhérent au processus de conservation de l’histoire humaine. Ainsi, l’aspect arbitraire du temps qui passe, de ce qu’il conserve et oublie, est gravé dans la délicatesse du support, dessin d’un autre genre.