Francesco
Finizio

11.09.2024

USR GRPS

Exhibition view usr grps, RLBQ, Marseilles, 2005

Ringworm, 2005
Automated call program, emergency phones, sound files

Photos : Justin Sanchez

A row of red emergency phones that ring randomly.
When a ringing phone is picked up, a male or female voice describes soemthing that might resemble an artwork.

Accumulator, 2005
Acier, laque orange, 80 x 60 x 183 cm

Acquisition by : Collège de Carantec, dans le cadre du 1%, Finistère_

Silver Surfers, 2005
Burnt skateboards, ashes, glitter

Silver Surfers speaks of the alteration of energy and memory; from skateboarding we go to making fire with broken skateboards to finally telling stories around the fire. What now remains is the memory of that fire itself the memory of those skateboards. Campfire made of broken skateboards, Silver Surfers brings a primal image of the band of brothers around the fire to the notion of the aftermath of our times. Myth and dystopia gather the
speech and murmur around the fire and keep it going.

Silver Surfers a été adaptée par la suite dans différents contextes d’exposition collectives

Exposition collective Matières précieuses, Cité du design, Saint-Etienne, 2021
Exposition collective Perdre le nord, ENSA, Marseille, 2024
Commissariat Marius Grygielewicz