Starting from the fact, that every human has its protective cover, which is formed by his past, his taste, his dreams and nightmares I have visualized it with this tent. The cover is an image of oneself which is put over outside and this image is reflected in the menality, the style of clothes and the musictaste. The invisible cover marks the relation and the separation between oneself and the other. During several months I sat in this tent and stiched words, phrases and little objects which have a personal meaning to me inside of it. My idea is to come to Berlin with the tent and to install it in the Total Artspace Gallery and to live there during the exhibtion. The fact that I have very little space here in Paris limits me to work on two dimensions and the idea to work and create in the gallery inspires me a lot.
The idea behind is the following:
As in january a friend of mine went to the Caribbean to do scientific research concerning the climate change, which manifests itself strong storms. He created a blog on which he wrote about his experience on the research ship. Since then I haunt the adventure of science and the life on a sailing-ship. This inspired me to do my own trip to the Caribbean, through my artistic work and to develop a thought about this place and the nature of this region.
I will sew a sail out of plasticbags, show a serie of treasure maps, underwaterjungle drawings in an installation and a serie of little mysterious objects. I understand this work as a work in progress and the exhibition starts on the 19th of july 2007 with the arriving at the gallery with the tent and the underwaterjungle drawings. There will be a an exotic dinner for friends of the gallery and the artist, this date will be communicated then. The vernissage will be on 26. July 2007 at the Total Artspace Gallery, Lenaustraße 5 in 12047 Berlin. I would be glad to see you if you are around Berlin at this time.
