Interpretation mask Sculpture

This marble, I call it "Mask of interpretation". You put it on your face, and it translates what you say into any language, just as it translates what you are told. So, why Interpretive Mask and not Translation Mask? We speak of an interpreter when it comes to translating live, orally. Computer vendors talk about machine translation, and would like to believe that an algorithm could translate one language into another without human intervention. So, yes, interpretation rather than translation, because finely restoring content that is somewhat complex in another language comes out of the interpretation. When I got it into my head to transform a block of marble lying around in my studio into a mask, fear seized me. The mask, one of the most traditional themes, the most complex, so much it engages towards anthropology, towards the performing arts, towards the questioning on the representation ... what was I going to do in this galley? And yet, it wasn't a mask that I wanted to do either, but rather a neutral over-face that would express the complexity of human communication, the almost impossibility of translating from one language into another. The language which binds men of the same culture, but which also unties them, the often treacherous language, which says the opposite of what one intended to mean. Little by little, during this project which took place over months, years, it is this word which imposed itself, LIES, and this play on the present accent, or absent, LIÉS or LIES. Linked, letters are linked together to form words, words are linked together to create sentences, languages ​​are linked together by translation, by equivalences, approximations, approximations. And if we consider that the white vein on the E is not worth an accent, we link the word "LIES", plural of LIE, which is used especially in the singular, "drink the chalice to the dregs, the dregs of humanity ", of course, but above all, in English, lies, or hereafter, which one can read on the tombstones" here lies Mary Schelley ". On these four letters, therefore, a concentrate of contradictions, all the more so if one ventures into the etymologies, for some uncertain, where one learns that "lies", lie has the same origin as "lies" be extended. And that perhaps even the word "lie", that of the chalice, would have an English etymology, lees, of unknown origin. But it is above all the French-English combination "lies-liés" that I wanted to hear, that I wanted to read.

Sculpture:Stone on Marble

Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork

Size:11 W x 13 H x 5 D in

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