Life Buoy
Sculpture Installation
Life Buoy is both the generic name of a soap and a flotation device for saving lives (lifebuoy). The minimal mise-en-scène of the installation evokes, through a row of soap dishes evenly aligned on the gallery walls, a communal shower and alludes to the Holocaust. Each object plays a role, both as part of a "monumental" whole (the installation) and as an intimate element, stimulating individual and collective memory. Seemingly solid in a minimal monumentality, the ash bars are actually temporal and may turn to dust upon touch.
The ashes are compressed into moulds cast from generic soaps : Life buoy, Caress, Ivory, Dove, La rose, etc.
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Exhibitions :
Disquieting Strangeness; Centre of Freudian Analysis and Research, London, GB, 1998
White Lily; Mercer Union, Toronto, Canada, 1996
Re collections, Pfefferberg Gallery, Berlin, Germany, 1996
Mnemosyne; Gallery Mladych U Recickych, Prague, Czech Republic, 1995
Components :
A selection of 9 / 87 compressed ash cast formations
Dimensions
Ash bars
Caress : 7.5 cm x 4.5 x 2 cm
Miel : 6.5 cm x 5.5 cm x 2.5 cm
La rose : 4.5 cm x 4 cm x 4. cm
Aluminum base
4 cm x 10 cm x 1 cm
Installation
running wall length : 6.5 m
display height : 110 cm