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Sculpture, Ceramic on Ceramic
Size: 11.4 W x 25.2 H x 1.6 D in
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EN "The iterations of a crime" is a series of maces, objects of war and ceremonies used in Kanak culture. The title of this series refers to the different shapes these objects can assume, but also to the different evocations of "crime", like the assault done on a culture. The shape of the ceramics comes from images of Kanak maces found on the websites of the major auction houses. Through fictitious calcification, this work seeks to highlight the mercantilization mechanism of a culture, which, by making sacred ceremonial objects or weapons of war decorative trinkets, completes his death. The use of ceramics, a process of creation generally attributed to decorative objects, defuses the violence conferred on the maces by the fragility of its material and its "whiteness". It also suggests ornamental virtues to the works and reinforces the cleavage born from the use of objects as exotic apartment ornaments. This series is a critical approach to colonial looting that disembers objects and perpetuates a process of toxic exotisation. FR "Les itérations d'un meurtre" est une série de casse-tête, des objets de guerre et de cérémonies utilisés dans la culture kanak. Le titre de cette série renvoie aux différentes formes des objets, mais aussi aux différentes évocations du « meurtre », comme le crime fait à une culture. La forme des œuvres provient d'images de casse-tête kanaks trouvées sur les sites des grandes maisons de vente aux enchères. Par le biais d'une calcification fictive, ce travail cherche à mettre en exergue le mécanisme de mercantilisation d'une culture, qui, en faisant d'objets de cérémonie sacrés ou d'armes de guerre des bibelots décoratifs, parachève sa mort. L'utilisation de la céramique, processus de création généralement attribué aux objets de décoration, désamorce la violence conférée aux casse-tête par la fragilité de sa matière. Elle suggère aussi des vertus ornementales aux œuvres et renforce le clivage né de l'utilisation des objets comme enjolivures exotiques d'appartement. Cette série est une approche critique du pillage colonial qui désincarne les objets et perpétue un processus d'exotisation toxique. https://alexandre-erre.com/les-iterations-dun-crime/
Sculpture:Ceramic on Ceramic
Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork
Size:11.4 W x 25.2 H x 1.6 D in
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Alexandre Erre is a Paris based artist. Born in 1990, he is native from New-Caledonia/Kanaky where he lived for about 17 years. He studied at the École Supérieure d’Art et Design de Grenoble and then at École Nationale Supérieure d’Arts de Paris-Cergy. Through the use of installations, sculptures, videos, photographs, interventions in public spaces, performances and engraving, he dissects the codes and norms to question and create memories, tales and fictions. Alexandre Erre’s practice revolves around his native island, New-Caledonia, and broadly speaking around the processes of exoticization, racializing, gendering, domination or cultural hierarchy. His questioning, at the crossroads of gender, sexuality and community, leans on his personal background and summons his insularity and his diasporic status.
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