Les renoncements nécessaires

This installation consists of a photograph taken during lockdown, showing an abandoned wall lizard tail. Left there to deceive one’s enemy and allow escape, it is reproduced here as a sacred object. A trace of a painful, but perhaps salutary, past, it is also the enlargement of a scaly appendage symbolizing luck and rebirth.

The edition of a hundred or so lizard tails made of raw clay is presented as lucky charms to take with you.

The image and the multiples are accompanied by a sculpture reproducing the conical shape of the lizard tail, three pieces of an animal with cracked skin, somewhere between the molt of a snake and the scales of a dinosaur.

The installation evokes a contemporary cabinet of curiosities, where wonder blends with a reflection on the power of beliefs and imagination. Objects, fragments preciously preserved to question the imagination and its fictions.

Les renoncements nécessaires
digital color photography printed on matte paper. 100 x 50 cm

Fur slip
edition, 100 lizard tails, raw clay, gold leaf. 40 x 60 x 50 cm

Curiositas
sculpture, polystyrene cone, paint, stainless steel table. 140 x 80 x 60 cm