05 Quand la chaleur rencontre l'oubli (EN)

Quand la chaleur rencontre l’oubli (“When warmth meets oblivion”)
2024
Pigment print on matte paper
59.4 x 42cm.

Quand la chaleur rencontre l'oubli is a monochrome diptych who associates disposable objects with the “cooling down” of memory. If warmth is the most primitive way that we leave our own traces, most of the times without even realizing it, the two body of works represent each a type of heat that creates a trace only to be soon departed and erased over time.

Receipts that we receive on a daily basis use thermal printing to record a certain transaction, its texts are erased over time, cooled down to be soon forgotten. By collaging old receipts with an image of a Christmas tree thrown in the streets shortly after having fulfilled its role, the text on the receipts decorates and contaminates the image at the same time. As the two elements mix and become one, we confront multiple form of overlooked objects that only are kept in warmth for a short moment, only to be then thrown away.

On its side, the video of a handprint transferred onto a window and its quick but slow-paced disappearance evokes the heat more explicitly and connects it to our own existence. The simple geste and minimalistic visuals brings the image to the philosophical, visualizing the shortlivedness of the trace and the total emptiness that resonates at the start and end of the video.