Horizontal printing system using street movements. Each print is exposed to traffic for at least one hour.
Photos: Eric Surmont et Eltono
Videos: Victor Thiré
Chaumont, France
September 2020
Invited for the Saisons Culturelles by the Cultural Department of the city of Chaumont, I spent 10 days painting in the streets of the city center to create a graphic itinerary. I painted a total of 55 small and discreet pieces. A booklet has been edited by the city so residents and visitors can go on a quest to find them. The booklets are available at the following venue : Hôtel de Ville (City Council), tourist office, médiathèque Les Silos, the museums and Le Signe Centre National du Graphisme.
saisonsculturelleschaumont.fr/evenement/detours-eltono
During the confinement established to face the COVID-19 crisis in France, a rule was put into place that permitted “brief displacements, within the limit of one hour daily and within a maximum radius of one kilometer around the place of residence”. (https://media.interieur.gouv.fr/deplacement-covid-19/).
Following this rule, I traced a 1 km radius circle on a map around my house and decided to walk on each and every path I could to reach the imposed limit. Arriving at the “border”, I drew a line on the floor. Once the legal limit of my movements was marked, I turned around and walked back home before reaching the one hour time limit.
The result are fragments of a circle delimiting my personal border. The distance is based on the position of one’s house, so each person has their own border. My goal was to reach this intangible limit and, from there, contemplate the temporarily inaccessible beyond.
I finished the 1 KM. project on May 10th 2020, one day before the end of the confinement in France. I reached 21 border points and wandered around 60 km in total.
A huge documentation is available below. You can click on the pictures to see them bigger.
Straight line distance from home: 1 km
Walking distance from home: 1,4 km
36 minutes round trip
Straight line distance from home: 1 km
Walking distance from home: 1,3 km
32 minutes round trip
Straight line distance from home: 1 km
Walking distance from home: 1,7 km
44 minutes round trip
Straight line distance from home: 1 km
Walking distance from home: 1,3 km
32 minutes round trip
Straight line distance from home: 1 km
Walking distance from home: 1,5 km
44 minutes round trip
Straight line distance from home: 1 km
Walking distance from home: 1,2 km
38 minutes round trip
Straight line distance from home: 1 km
Walking distance from home: 1,4 km
44 minutes round trip
Straight line distance from home: 1 km
Walking distance from home: 1,5 km
46 minutes round trip
Straight line distance from home: 1 km
Walking distance from home: 1,6 km
46 minutes round trip
Straight line distance from home: 1 km
Walking distance from home: 1,7 km
44 minutes round trip
Straight line distance from home: 1 km
Walking distance from home: 1,7 km
42 minutes round trip
Straight line distance from home: 1 km
Walking distance from home: 1,6 km
42 minutes round trip
Straight line distance from home: 1 km
Walking distance from home: 2,1 km
50 minutes round trip
Straight line distance from home: 1 km
Walking distance from home: 1,6 km
42 minutes round trip
Straight line distance from home: 1 km
Walking distance from home: 1,4 km
36 minutes round trip
Straight line distance from home: 1 km
Walking distance from home: 1,3 km
35 minutes round trip
Straight line distance from home: 1 km
Walking distance from home: 1,4 km
34 minutes round trip
Straight line distance from home: 1 km
Walking distance from home: 1,8 km
45 minutes round trip
Straight line distance from home: 1 km
Walking distance from home: 1,7 km
38 minutes round trip
Straight line distance from home: 1 km
Walking distance from home: 2,1 km
52 minutes round trip
Straight line distance from home: 1 km
Walking distance from home: 1,4 km
36 minutes round trip
Composition on building
Miami, USA
Project curated by Biinary Studios
07/2018
Thanks @golden305 for the help!
Pictures by Diana @parcialmentenublada
Composition on tramway
Échappées d’art, Angers, France
Project curated by Winterlong gallery
Summer 2018
Pictures: Thierry Bonnet – Ville d’Angers
Generative wood block printing
Series of 8 monotypes
Printed at Center Street Studio, Boston, MA, USA
November 2017
On sale exclusively at www.centerstreetstudio.com
Palma Festival Residency
Le Pavillon, Caen, France
March 2018
Palma Festival Residency
Le Pavillon, Caen, France
March 2018
Crossing the Orne river one day using the Orne-Boom (a boom built in 1908 that is used to regulate the tide) I realized that in font of each door, on the downstream side, the water was forming very powerful whirlpools. The next time I crossed the bridge I saw that the debris that had been floating the day before was still turning around in the same place. I understood that the whirlpools were so strong that any objects caught in them could barely escape. So, I decided to throw some art in one of the strongest whirlpools and see what would happen. After 5 days I decided to get them back and, after quite a lot of trouble, I managed to fish them all out of the water and bring them back to the exhibition space.
