Carbon-149

Series of thirteen drawings made with pencil and graphite powder,
2014

Each drawing is designed with a specific format and each of them articulates a fragment of minimal art (Tony Smith, Sol LeWitt, John McCracken, Robert Smithson, etc.) incorporated into a barren background. We can think of the metaphysical desert, the wide open spaces in which the art of the 60s developed, but also of extraterrestrial topographies or other sci-fi settings.

All these images are also imagined as narrative pieces which contaminate each other, leaving an important place for off-screen and fragmentation. From then on, the visible objects resist the establishment of temporality: do they come from a geological past or a distant future? I tried to translate this ambiguity without resolving it. The title of this series evokes both carbon 14 (archaeological dating system) and a science fiction statement (1-4-9 being the ratios of proportions of famous monolith of 2001 : A Space Odyssey).

This series presents itself as a reverie, a subjective navigation through these forms.