︎︎︎One prayer, CIRCON(re)VOLUTION︎︎︎ 

A prayer, CIRCON(ré)VOLUTION: Site-specific installation, modelling, drawings and printed images, POELP October 2024. This installation, which stands upright like a stage set, presents a simple idea. A simple idea, but one that is dramatised. It was inspired by a 2017 quote from anarchist economist David Graeber: Finance has become the greatest omniscient pagan god. The accumulation of wealth by certain individuals is monumental but, paradoxically, not very visible and difficult to understand and quantify. The installation takes the form of a place of worship dedicated to inequality and appropriates the codes of a Catholic church. It subverts these codes and uses humble materials (bubble wrap curtains injected with gouache, cardboard ex-votos, bread dough candles, etc.). Like a profane prayer, Prière articulates a collection of forms, writings and symbols linked to protests and acts of disobedience throughout history. The accumulation of artefacts draws a historical map, a library of resistance and collective memory.