Les mots dans les œuvres

Une sélection d’œuvres comportant des mots et du texte par les artistes d’Occitanie. 

Agnès Fornells
 Du vent pour vous

2006

Series of stamped texts on framed paper
Approximately 50 x 70 cm each

Work carried out in residence at Capacete, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, with the support of the Consulate General of France in Rio de Janeiro, the AFAA and ADOR, a network of art schools in the south of France
Framing produced by Frac Languedoc-Roussillon

Balanca mais no cai, 2006, tissue paper pads for kites

Chiens délocalisés, 2006, stamps on Sahara coloured paper

Du bon usage du kilo de feijao, 2006, stamps on Fidji coloured paper

Ici et là gît Rio de Janeiro, 2006, tissue paper pads for kites

Il manque une patte à toute compagnie, 2006, stamp on blank newsprint

Le poids d’un sac léger, 2006, tissue paper pads for kites

Leçons de bal perdu, 2006, stamps on Buenos Aires coloured paper

Les défunts ne racontent pas d’histoires, 2006, stamps on blank newsprint

Le vendeur de pastèque, 2006, stamps on evening paper for kites

Une description, 2006, stamps on blank newsprint

Du vent pour vous, view of the exhibition Regards croisés at Frac Languedo-Roussillon, Montpellier, France, 2006

This work is the result of a residency in a city that is not conducive to photographic strolls and where audiovisual equipment exposes the lone person carrying it to theft. The text therefore steps in when it is impossible to take pictures and replaces their absence. Each text, which starts with the same opening sentence and then zooms in on a city I am discovering, is stamped on paper found locally: blank newspaper, coloured paper bearing the names of cities, islands or deserts, brightly coloured tissue paper used to make kites…

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Agnès Fornells