Un après-midi de chien

Censer and sound system
Produced during the residency organised by Collectif Portail and presented at Un après-midi de chien. The work brings a ritual object into a sonic encounter.

Incense burner and sound system

Created during the residency organized by the Portail collective and presented as part of the "Un après-midi de chien" exhibition from August 25 to September 9, 2023, at the Espace Claude Forêt, Place du Théâtre in Chagny (71).

Correspondences
Charles Baudelaire, Les Fleurs du mal

Nature is a temple where living pillars
Sometimes let slip a jumble of words;
Man passes there through forests of symbols
That watch him with familiar glances.

Like long echoes that merge from afar
Into a dark and profound unity,
Vast as the night and as the light,
Scents, colors, and sounds answer one another.

There are scents fresh as children's flesh,
Sweet as oboes, green as meadows,
And others, corrupt, rich, and triumphant,

Possessing the expansiveness of infinite things,
Like amber, musk, benzoin, and incense,
Singing the raptures of the spirit and the senses.

Screen printing on emergency blanket, edition of 10, 220 × 140 cm



Scientific concepts, calculations and thought-images are printed on a material associated with protection and space exploration. The work questions paradox and reversals within human knowledge.