For the past fifty years, artists used destruction as a tool. Instead of starting with a blank canvas, they started with a photography, a painting or something already existing. Erasing, cutting, tearing, a new form of art was emerging. Artists started to question the lapse of time of a piece of art. Creating ephemeral objects, taking place in a certain time, location. The piece of art becoming a unique experience.
Our way of approaching life changed with the years and so the influences and the standards. How this destruction evolved in the time? Is the result as important as the process? Is the piece of art created in order to last?
Happenings, performances, land art, street art, all these kind of art are not meant to last. Using the forces of the nature as a second tool, leaving the final result to the nature itself. Create in order to be destroyed. The process and the experience beeing more important that the result.
I’m interested in the process of ephemeral art. The process, the experience being more important that the result. Type, photography, text, happening; these are the tools of my project. I would like to create a book that would be a one time experience, for one person. By using different papers, inks that react with the light or the touch. Tearing, folding, cutting the pages in order to discover the content. The book becoming a one person, time experience.