Multiverres

2018

Installation with glass ready-made sculptures

The display case, also called vitrine, is a piece of furniture which shelters, protects and shows objects or artworks. It disable degradation or stealing and, most of all, it showcases and highlights what it contains. A vitrine is clearly an exhibition space. The Contemporary Garage is by definition a display case.

Exhibited at The Contemporary Garage in Örebro in 2018

The display case, also called vitrine, is a piece of furniture which shelters, protects and shows objects or artworks. It disable degradation or stealing and, most of all, it showcases and highlights what it contains. A vitrine is clearly an exhibition space.

Then, considering it like this, a vitrine in a museum means that we have an exhibition space in an exhibition space. Or, said different, a « Super »-space of exhibition.

So now, we imagine a vitrine in a museum which contains another vitrine. It’s an exhibition space in an exhibition space in an exhibition space, then, said different, an « Hyperspace » of exhibition.

What if this one was containing another vitrine ? And so on?

As semioticians describe about the object vitrine, since you put something inside, even the most trivial object, it turns into something « to look at ». The separation introduced by the vitrine between the viewer and the object makes it « sacred ». It’s like if it was no longer belonging to the same space-time environnement as the viewer one’s. It’s belonging to another dimension.

What’s about an object displayed in a vitrine which is herself displayed in another vitrine in a museum ? In which dimension would the object belong?

These are the ideas I am playing with throughout the artwork MULTIVERRES, a Russian doll game of vitrines and glass domes displayed in the glass exhibition space The Contemporary Garage in Örebro. A “Multiverse”, the other name of Hyperspace, made of glass (in French the word for glass is “verre”)…

Close-up Views

The installation Multiverres is conceptualised as constellations of sculptures that are combined in multiple levels of understanding. Some constellations are dissociable and could be re-installed differently depending of the context of exhibition, some other are autonomic sculptures that have specific titles and meanings.

Multiverres

Showcased Glass Sculptures

Never-ending Hourglass, 2018

Glass Ready-made Sculpture
included in the installation Multiverres

It Was a Plan, 2018

Glass Ready-Made Sculpture,
included in the installation Multiverres

Multiverres ternaire, 2018

Glass Ready-made Sculpture
included in the installation Multiverres

Temps en échec, 2018

Glass Ready-made Sculpture
included in the installation Multiverres

Cristallisation, 2018

Ready-made Sculpture
included in the installation Multiverres

Studio Address

De Geersgatan 32
68260 Lesjöfors
Sweden

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