TALK&PEACE | C1920212022 | VARDARISM | PAPEROLLE | POLITICALLY CORRECT | SERIE DE FEMMES








series TALK&PEACE
2023 – Work in Progress
Begun precisely on 7 October 2023, based on two drawings on the Israel-Lebanon-Palestine conflict from a series of drawings
Politically Correct? produced in 1992 and reinstalled in 2023 at the Centre Culturel Français de Freiburg, Germany.
I immediately felt the need to address two issues of this series to express myself in the face of the seriousness of the conflict.
Create a conviviality space so that peace can exist.
In the impossibility of communicating, a Space of Conviviality is needed for Vive la Paix!
Since 7th October, I’ve been working on this series almost every day. The lines of the drawing are made with a Caran d’Ache 849 biro. Sometimes I’ve pushed the paper down with the round end of a crochet needle so that the light catches in the hollows. The drawing is coloured in with greasy pencils. I emphasised the lines drawn using a sewing machine without thread. The holes are evenly spaced and the same size. They look like bursts of bullets. I zigzag stitched the two designs edge to edge: the Espace de Convivialité with the Vive la Paix! so that they become inseparable. The sewing thread is fluorescent so it’s easy to see.
The zigzag as a repair, the zigzag as a scar: mending the tears of the war years. To protect the words, the drawings and the colours, I sewed a passe-partout with very fine functional paper that we don’t pay much attention to:
- White, slightly transparent tissue paper, used just long enough for a precious wrapping or shoebox and then thrown in a ball in your wastepaper basket;
- The survival blanket or emergency blanket, hard-wearing, waterproof and rot-proof, silver-sided to protect against the cold, gold-sided to keep warm, which is generally only used once;
- The crystal-blue paper that protects Belgian endive from the light is reminiscent of the Mariette blue passe-partout, the indigo-coloured rag paper produced by Pierre Jean Mariette (1694-1774), which was used to create an effect of depth in the drawings on display.