Burqa Lacération / Niqabation
“These images protected by cameras – the ones for luxury goods.
Somehow they are even more protected than human beings.”
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“La lacération représente pour moi ce geste primaire, c’est une guérilla des images et des signes. D’un geste rageur, le passant anonyme détourne le message et ouvre un nouvel espace de liberté. Pour moi, les affiches lacérées rapprochaient l’art de la vie et annonçaient la fin de la peinture de transposition…”
Lacération represents for me that primal gesture, it’s a guerilla war of sign and image. In one enraged gesture, the anonymous passer-by détournes the message and opens a new free space. For me, shredded billboards reproached living art and announced the end of the ‘painting of transposition’…
“Etre le témoin actif d’une humanité riche en contradictions est une de mes ambitions. C’est l’anonyme de la rue qui intervient sur les reflets de la culture dominante… Je passe après.”
To bear witness to a humanity rich in contradictions is one of my ambitions. It’s the stranger of the street that intervenes in the fragments of the dominant culture… I come by after.
“J’ai eu beaucoup de discussions avec les militants communistes qui me reprochaient d’arracher leurs affiches : je leur répondais qu’elles iraient dans les musées et qu’ainsi leur histoire serait racontée.”
I had many discussions with militant communists who reproached me for having torn apart their posters. I replied to them that the posters would go into museums, and that thereby their story would be told.
“La vie d’un artiste doit commencer par la flânerie.”
The life of an artist must start with flanery.
(Jacques Villeglé)
Rue de Bretagne, 1979
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Lacération is the retributive act by the marketing-produced-subject upon the marketing that produced her.
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Lacération traces the absurd mortality of the spectacle, fetishized obsolescence.
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Lacération lays waste to the power-lunches, the power-points, the PR pitches that went into your latest campaign.
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Lacération is the adoptive father of e-waste, the perishable food thrown away by your local Monoprix, the green-friendly transformation of your bank.
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Lacération will peel back the white skin of your iPod, scalp your poodle, tear the face off Shrek.
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Lacération makes of the metro a museum, without any democratic pretence for permits.
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Lacération requires no brand or name recognition, it is not the personality cult of the tagger, it is the act in aesthetic purity.
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Lacération is the act of the racaille and the migrant journalier.
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Lacération is market saturation.
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Lacération is an obsolete technology, the cassette, the Y2K bug.
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Lacération is the sublimated ungovernability of the people.
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Lacération portends the coming insurrection.
"Prenez vos désirs pour des réalités" Affiche lacérée, 1968
My lacération documentation project during a year in Paris in 2008:
