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elaboration"16. Reasonable indeed for a man to whom art is mostly a daily activity, "an act of involvement
in the world"17 through which raises his project of life.
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Passage from a text published in the catalogue of the Sur les sols de Malakoff/PrGauchet exhibition.
Frac des Pays de la Loire 2002.
9 Action & video exhibited in "Le confort Moderne", Poitiers,2001, consisting in carrying for 49 days a 30
ton pile of sand from a room to another on the 1500square meters exhibition area with a spade and two
buckets, as part of the collective exhibition "Le dtour vers la simplicit:expriences de l'absurde". The
site of The Pilat refers to an action of dredging up blockhouses at the bottom of the Pilat dune (January
2001) and Saqqara refers to the dredging up of monuments on that archeological site (March 1999).
10 As for example the video "Petit ramassage d'automne dans mon jardin Petit Mars" on which the
artist spends the time picking up the leaves fallen on the ground on an area delimited by four trees.
11 Georges Bataille, "La notion de dpense", La part maudite, Minuit, 1967.
12 Residence that took place at the Muse des Beaux Arts, Nantes from September 23rd to November
6th as part of the exhibition "Le travail c'est la sant" (Zoo Gallery,Nantes and various spots, Rennes. K@rl
curatoring.
16 Stephen Wright,"Le dsoeuvrement de l'art", Mouvements,n 7,SeptOct 2001, page 9.
17 Title of the collection of Franois Pluchart's writings published by Les Archives de la Critique d'Art,
Paris, Jacqueline Chambon,2002.
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