Les Fugitives
Detroit, faire un pas, puis un autre.
work Marie Combes
fragment
“Mon hypothèse de travail était que toute mémoire un peu longue est plus structurée qu’il ne semble. Que des photos prises apparemment par hasard, des cartes postales choisies selon l’humeur du moment, à partir d’une certaine quantité commencent à dessiner un itinéraire, à cartographier le pays imaginaire qui s’étend au dedans de nous.”
[My working thesis was that every somewhat extensive memory is more structured than it seems -- that photos taken apparently at random, postcards chosen following momentary whims, begin given a certain accumulation to sketch an itinerary, to map the imaginary land that stretches out inside of us.]
in Immemory Chris Marker
The visual form of the work in “Diptyques” and “Fugitives” is the result of an approach that is really a construction process. During this process I explore how a fragment of image matter moves through the arrangement, leaving its trail, and how it roams, not quite at random, through the chaos of images.
The installation of “Fugitives” in a meadow on the Tanneries location is a dynamic follow up of the image arrangement I worked on in Detroit in September 2012. In Detroit I roamed through a territory unknown to me. I had no map, just an inner compass that would resonate with a street corner, a building, or a tree. I was exploring how my scrutiny of this drifting photographic path could rebuild something, give flesh and bones to a town.
What is shown here is a fragment of this experiment. The visitor’s body, discovering and moving through the Tanneries peninsula and the images there, may experience what this could become scaled up to a whole town. “Fugitives” is a fragment of my own visual and physical experience in Detroit.
Marie Combes, July 2013
Christophe Ponceau réunit le travail de Marie Combes, Anya Sirota et Jean Louis Farges avec les étudiants de Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning. POP IT UP, une installation entre paysage et architecture, explore le potentiel des lieux non-définis en suggérant la liberté et l’optimisme dans le déconstruit.
POP IT UP - Exposition du 8 juin au 29 septembre 2013
Les Tanneries, 234 rue des Ponts, 45200 Amilly, France
POP IT UP, JUNE 8, SEPTEMBER 29, 2013
FEATURING WORK
BY ANYA SIROTA + AKOAKI, MARIE COMBES, CHRISTOPHE PONCEAU
AN EXHIBITION OF CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN VERNACULAR @Les TANNERIES, AMILLY, FRANCE
Christophe Ponceau brings together work by artist Marie Combes, and Anya Sirota + Jean Louis Farges from Atelier AKOAKI, with architecture students from Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning. POP IT UP explores the architectural pleasures of coming-undone-ness and speculates about the spatial opportunities inherent in the provisional and the transformative.
Exhibition of two large format images as part of the Imaging Detroit project and the Detroit Design Festival 2012. In Detroit and on Detroit, the work will be installed in Perrien Park, and draws from a series titled Les Fugitives. The project was completed over the course of a fellowship with the Metropolitan Observatory for Digital Culture and Representation MODCaR
