Geste hivernal, 2015 – Epic: Here on Earth
Ici la terre is a love epic imbued with romantic references, resounding like an ode to nature and life. It is a collective and multidisciplinary expedition that brings together six friends to seal the bronze sculpture of an arm holding out a real bouquet of flowers to the top of a cliff.
Conquest of the mountains, of vertigo, as well as a conquest of love, Ici la terre magnetizes the references of culture in order to orient them towards nature. A militant gesture that is unaware of itself, out of the common field of vision, with a deficient energy, economic balance (all that for that…), by espousing the philosophy of copyleft (this sculpture and its future no longer belong to us), working by above all to give glory to life!
Here is the video of the expedition that fixed the arm in the mountain and placed a bouquet of flowers on it:
Ici la terre, 2014 – 89×55 cm 3 copies
Three photographic projects accompanied ‘Ici la Terre’. Here they are:
Attempts
Like a performative metaphor for the project captured in one photo, the jump into the sea with flowers illustrates the act of holding a bouquet up to the sky for a few seconds.
Tentative amoureuse, 2014 Rade de Beaulieu, 55×89, 5 copies
Expression of a loving emotion
Flowers that emerge from the body, like ineffable emotions that words can’t express and that flow through the skin. They recompose the face, giving it a floral expression.
Expression d’une émotion amoureuse VI, 2018, 70×70, 5 copies
The visits
The expeditions that led us to choose the mountains to carry out the ‘Ici la Terre’ project also inspired us to immortalize each place we visited with a photograph, capturing our quest.
La Visite, 2014, 55×89 cm, 5 copies