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Drawings (ink, graphite pencil, and transfer on cotton paper), sculpture (a metal barrel and 2 taxidermied seagulls), piezography and lithography prints
© Blaise Adilon
Since the establishment of the Calais camp, a documentary approach has been undertaken through graphic and photographic recordings. The installation brings together a portion of this collection, as well as a video featuring a single long static shot of a dwelling consumed by flames (Never Give Up). Prior to the dismantling organized by the Pas-de-Calais prefecture in March 2016, several refugees, forced to abandon what they had built and created together, set fire to their makeshift homes.
This body of memory is further enriched by five assemblages arranged according to specific concepts: "common ground," "sharing," "multiplying," "attaching," and "flying." By confronting heterogeneous spaces and times and creating gaps—or even doubts—about history as it is commonly told, these assemblages question the foundations of our relationship to the world, namely, the act of dwelling together. Contrary to popular belief, wasn’t the mass destruction of the Jungle aimed at halting an unprecedented experiment—the creation and experience of a shared world?