Communication concerning an object has never previously been a key to read the project. The poster announcing new scenography of the Arc de Triomphe should allow for a rapid interpretation of intention: to decipher a symbol, to change the symbolism from the military point of view to the potential for peace. This was the objective of a permanent installation: to treat the monument as a subject, while researching its monumentality, references and origin, as well as its function as a solely symbolic monument: a national monument presenting a nation but through the filter of a war. Then to confront the object with the reality of a specific period of time: our period, with its preference for such values as peace, which has been the monument’s ecosystem for over sixty years.

When I learned that it meant covering La Concorde with posters, the opportunity was too great to miss and I suggested, stepping out of my role concerning communication, two posters which I imagined would hang opposite each other and be divided by the rails on two opposite sides of the Concorde station, line no. 1. Of course history decided differently; the English word “WAR”, I was told, created a problem. But the subject has remained and still persecutes the monument and its communication, a witness of doubt which was not intended, but which shows in a mission of the national monument: “between war and peace”.

Cet article a été publié le Dimanche 16 mars 2008 à 10.03 et est classé dans architecture, critical fusion, urban art. Vous pouvez en suivre les commentaires par le biais du flux RSS 2.0. Vous pouvez laisser un commentaire, ou faire un trackback depuis votre propre site.