Fabien Giraud & Raphaël Siboni
Face Value (Fragments)
2020
Sodium silicate, salt
Dimensions variable (maximum: 21 x 22 x 11 cm)
Each fragment in a gray conservation box, interior dimensions 38.5 x 22.5 x 15.5 cm, with black polyethylene foam protection
Multiple of 10 numbered copies, certified by the artists, produced by Les Amis de l'IAC, Villeurbanne/Rhône-Alpes.
These fragments of salt masks were molded from masks from the collections of MONA (Museum of Old and New Art, Tasmania).
Public price: €1,400
Friends' price: €700
The Face Value (Fragments) edition by Fabien Giraud and Raphaël Siboni consists of 10 fragments of objects, white in color, variable in shape and size, made primarily of salt, a porous material sensitive to environmental variations. These fragments are taken from the sculptures that make up The Form of Not (2018-2020), the final season of The Unmanned series, which opens with the exhibition Infantia (1894-7231) at the Institut d'art contemporain (Villeurbanne/Rhône-Alpes).
The third season of a wide-ranging project - begun with The Unmanned (2014-2018), continued with The Everted Capital (2018-2019) - The Form of Not brings together, through a series of installations and sculptures, objects both conceived as points of origin and extensions of the films' logic in an exhibition space. From the outset, the sculptures have been hybrids, at the crossroads of primitive handmade objects and artifactual creations generated by artificial intelligence systems.
The group of sculptures includes several salt masks based on ancient works from the MONA (Museum of Old and New Art, Tasmania) collection, entitled The Form of Not (Face Value) (The Form of Not, Season 3, 2018-2020). These masks pose a form of recurrence, and appear as points of articulation in the work of Fabien Giraud and Raphaël Siboni; they are used as an archaic system of time measurement and currency in the film 1894-7231 (The Everted Capital, Season 2, Episode 1), and then become the raw materials from which the objects in Season 3 will be produced. They are then considered both as relics of fiction and the child's body. The different units of Fabien Giraud and Raphaël Siboni's work interweave and respond to each other within an overall project, which can be thought of as a fictional geology where strata enter into resonance.
The Face Value (Fragments) edition is the logical continuation of this ensemble, and is defined as a series of objects native to the exhibition Infantia (1894-7231). Salt casts of primitive masks are presented in the rooms of the IAC, and experience the damage caused by an unstable world, disintegrating and disintegrating under the leaks and variations of the atmosphere. From this destruction comes the creation of new units. Fragments of a whole, and the consequences of the dissolution of matter by its environment, these pieces bear witness to the reflection intrinsic to the work of both artists, namely the question of becoming, of continuity. Ruins of a world to come or riches of bygone civilizations, these fragments also bear the notion of value, present at the heart of The Everted Capital (Season 2).
The third season of a wide-ranging project - begun with The Unmanned (2014-2018), continued with The Everted Capital (2018-2019) - The Form of Not brings together, through a series of installations and sculptures, objects both conceived as points of origin and extensions of the films' logic in an exhibition space. From the outset, the sculptures have been hybrids, at the crossroads of primitive handmade objects and artifactual creations generated by artificial intelligence systems.
The group of sculptures includes several salt masks based on ancient works from the MONA (Museum of Old and New Art, Tasmania) collection, entitled The Form of Not (Face Value) (The Form of Not, Season 3, 2018-2020). These masks pose a form of recurrence, and appear as points of articulation in the work of Fabien Giraud and Raphaël Siboni; they are used as an archaic system of time measurement and currency in the film 1894-7231 (The Everted Capital, Season 2, Episode 1), and then become the raw materials from which the objects in Season 3 will be produced. They are then considered both as relics of fiction and the child's body. The different units of Fabien Giraud and Raphaël Siboni's work interweave and respond to each other within an overall project, which can be thought of as a fictional geology where strata enter into resonance.
The Face Value (Fragments) edition is the logical continuation of this ensemble, and is defined as a series of objects native to the exhibition Infantia (1894-7231). Salt casts of primitive masks are presented in the rooms of the IAC, and experience the damage caused by an unstable world, disintegrating and disintegrating under the leaks and variations of the atmosphere. From this destruction comes the creation of new units. Fragments of a whole, and the consequences of the dissolution of matter by its environment, these pieces bear witness to the reflection intrinsic to the work of both artists, namely the question of becoming, of continuity. Ruins of a world to come or riches of bygone civilizations, these fragments also bear the notion of value, present at the heart of The Everted Capital (Season 2).
