In-situ installation presented during summer 2009 near Liège (Belgium)
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?
“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.
This work was inpired by Roberto Juarroz's poem :
Living is being in infraction of a rule or of another rule there is no alternatives : infringing nothing is being dead. Reality is Infraction Unreality also is. Between the two, flows a river of mirrors which doesn't appear on any map In this river all the rules dilute, any infraction becomes another mirror.
(Decimocuarta poesia vertical n°74, translated from the Spanish/French edition, José Corti, 1997)
