In-situ installation presented during summer 2009 near Liège (Belgium)<br /><br />A red liquid seemed to have been shed in an isolated grove, leaving traces. The visual effect was expected to be unsettling or ambiguous : What happened there? How do we justify our presence within this fragile ecosystem?<br /><br />“Infractions” involves a natural red paint (bone glue, earth pigments, linseed oil) . The paint is laid on the ground and on deadwood and is degrading within roughly 2 months under the influence of weather, mould and insects, vegetation eventually taking over.<br /><br />This work was inpired by Roberto Juarroz's poem :<br /><br /> Living is being in infraction<br /> of a rule or of another rule<br /> there is no alternatives :<br /> infringing nothing is being dead.<br /> Reality is Infraction<br /> Unreality also is.<br /> Between the two, flows a river of mirrors<br /> which doesn't appear on any map<br /> In this river all the rules dilute,<br /> any infraction becomes another mirror.<br /><br />(Decimocuarta poesia vertical n°74, translated from the Spanish/French edition, José Corti, 1997)
