Salvaged glossy magazines paper, glue.
Residency project Made in Paris – Fait en papier at Cité Internationale Universitaire de Paris, Mars to May 2006.
The Cité Internationale Universitaire de Paris is a campus of international student housing to graduate students and researchers. Hosting 6000 people each year, the CIUP is a city in itself in the middle of Paris. For three months, I accumulated various found paper materials, then developed site-specific installations and short interventions.
From these found papers, I carried out two deployable structures : Projet Tori & Déconstruire Paris.
Projet Tori
Inspired by origami technique, I build identical modules based on an image of the Itsukushima Shrine, having found several hundred copies of it in a recycling bin. The modules model a budding tree leaf. The forms thus created are flexible and foldable. They can be flattened and stacked in a box.
150 folded sheets of 21 X 25 cm glossy magazine paper, glue.
Short intervention in Salon Honnorat and in the Parc of Maison internationale de la Cité internationale universitaire de Paris.
Photos : Julie Picard
Projet Déconstruire Paris
(Deconstructing Paris)
On a daily basis, I cut out photographs of Paris houses for sale, advertised in real estate agencies catalogues. These catalogues are printed in colour on glossy paper and freely distributed every week on the street.
Like a puzzle without a predefined shape, paper pieces are displayed on a table in the studio.
Using a pizza box cover, I constructed a box that can be folded into one piece, hold all the pieces of the project Deconstructing Paris, and be transportable.
Closed box: 13 X 13 X 1cm. Photos : Julie Picard
Acknowledgements :
CitéCulture and Cité Internationale Universitaire de Paris.
Open Studios of Mairie du 14e arrondissement de Paris 20-21 mai 2006.
Delphine Moreau, Juliette Sibillat & Eitan Hammer, Pasquale Calone & Jacqueline Ortaz, Rachel Hazell.
The artist would like to thank Office Franco-Québécois pour la Jeunesse, OFQJ-Power Corporation Grant, la Ministre des Relations Internationales et ministre de la Francophonie du Gouvernement du Québec 2006, Mme Monique Gagnon-Tremblay, le Ministre de Développement Durable, de l’Environnement et des Parcs du Gouvernement du Québec 2006, M. Thomas J. Mulcair, le député de Montmorency à l’Assemblée Nationale 2006 M. Raymond Bernier, le Fonds d’aide au développement du milieu de la Caisse Desjardins des Chutes Montmorency.