Sharing
5 closed plastic bags (4,5 x 2 x 3cm), containing objects that the author didn’t reveal (my father choose its content and closed the bags himself). 5 plastic containers of the Kinder Surprise Eggs, golden spray paint, 5 small padlocks, without their key.
Marcel duchamp’s À bruit secret (1916) and Christian Marclay’s Secret, made 70 years later, are plastic sonorous works: on the first one, two metal plates lock a secret object and on the second there is a disc held by a padlock. The core of these two works is the enclosure of the object or of the sonorous matter, transferring the focus from the inaudible to the secrecy.
There are things hidden in those works that can be revealed in others, and it is through that tension between what is seen, what is heard, the invisible and the unheard that the net of these secrets is developed. lose to win.
In this sense, this work, Sharing, goes back to the theme of secrecy.
In what is hidden and unspoken but also exhibited when the family is reunited to share the belongings of another element of the family who just died. These acts of Sharing are family jewels, are the secrets that go with those who die but that remain in those that know how to hear them.