2018 3/4/10/11 « ECHOINGLIFE » Street art actions, PARIS (FR)

 » ECHOINGLIFE  » Urban interventions,  series of collages in the streets of Paris.( Marais, 3rd, 4th, 11th arrondissement )

Poetic guerrilla questioning our impacts on the living. « Life resonates. Our actions echo. » No authorization. No gallery. Just arise in the urban space of the lively, cultural marsh district, where urban art is part of the landscape but where this organic form stood out for its strangeness. What dimension of life have we forgotten? Which invisible membranes are we piercing? What echoes of our actions come back to us?

Each version of the flower documents the impact of human context on the shape of life… ÉCHOINGLIFE is a series of about sixty wild visual interventions created in 2018, composed of collages representing a multidimensional imaginary flower. Affixed on walls, doors and facades, each version of the flower becomes a witness to actions, pollution, mutations and rebirths. ÉCHOINGLIFE invests the street as a space for exhibition and dialogue.

Through a series of drawings, variations on the same floral pattern, I stick images on facades and urban supports in order to confront the work with time, passage and human actions and reactions. The flower, deliberately hybrid and multilayer, is composed of petals containing graphic micro-landscapes: cells, veins, waves, industrial textures. These patterns symbolize forms of life and their possible transformations.

The interest of urban collage is twofold: it offers immediate visibility to a large public and exposes the work to modifications, degradations, overlaps, erasures or unpredictable appropriations by other artists and citizens. These alterations are an integral part of the project: they materialize the « echo » of human actions on the living. In some copies, green and blue evoke vitality; in others, wear and gray testify to the impact and the loss. The project aims to establish a dialogue between image and environment: what do these blooms stuck on concrete, sheet metal or wood walls show us? What do they tell us about our daily actions, our collective choices? Rather than imposing a discourse, ECHOINGLIFE offers an open reading, inviting the passerby to observe, compare, and reflect.

Documenting these interventions (photographs, summary mapping of the sites, encounter stories) was an essential part of the project: the photographic trace preserves the successive states and allows us to follow the life of the works after their installation.