2012
Weight of scent
Series of seventeen packages.
Various containers (various types of fabric, plastic bag and paper), small painted stones per series (12 of five stones, 3 of four, and 2 of three), and seventeen kinds of variable spices and dried flowers.
All gathered in one edition in 2018, in the form of an unmarked administrative file, gathering seventeen false minutes.
32 x 29 x 7 cm
Brief contextualization :
Piece of work inspired by a family anecdote.
The work operates in a form of fiction.
Seventeen packages were supposed to cross the Iranian border towards France, and according to which would have managed to pass the customs, and how, the results were meant to allow to measure with more or less finesse the extent of the possibilities of expression and communication left by legal and political constraints in Iran.
Furthermore, the spices, flowers, and scents, in addition to marking the link with Iran presupposed by the framework fiction of the work, where meant to help identify the content of each package clearly, free of the need to open any.
Binder
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