Promise Park, 2010
Work presented in Ce qui vient, _Ateliers de Rennes, Biennale d’art contemporain, Rennes._

In the context of this Biennale, I asked for a plot of land to build on and scrap materials to build with. LaMotte Immobilier and Legendre Construction granted my wish.
I worked on the site for six weeks, taking the park (in the broadest sense e.g. theme park, amusement park, human zoo, livestock park) as my starting point.
The land was a mine whose resources I had to exploit to the fullest. Many holes were dug.
Signs, attractions, architectural fragments dotted the landscape, as if to announce a great park in the making.
The campfires had to be fed, and much of what went up ultimately served that purpose.
At times, when it got really hot, the likes of Hieronymus Bosch, Grunewald and Saint Anthony crossed my mind.
Those who actually saw the site don’t have much to say about it.
They saw nothing out of the ordinary…just a construction site that was never brought to completion.
The venture survives only through some photos that I used to produce a line of postcards, souvenirs of a place no one knows.
I sold these during the exhibition in a souvenir shop/snack bar custom made from the construction shack I had used on the site.

L’œuvre a été adaptée par la suite dans différents contextes d’exposition, IAC Villeurbanne, et MoBY à Bat Yam.

Promise Park, 2010-2011
Installation. 3 vidéos, cartes postales, tirage photographique, bois, peinture Vues de l’exposition Yes, we don’t, à l’Institut d’Art Contemporain de Villeurbanne / Rhône-Alpes, 2011

Photo : Blaise Adilon

Promise Park_, 2015
Installation. 3 videos, postcards, photographs, wood, painting
Exhibition view ArkParkCraftRaftClinicClubPub, MoBY - Museums of Bat Yam, Tel Aviv, 2015_

Photos: Gal Deren