A long necklace made of acorns, terracotta, nuts, flour, and salt unfolds into a monumental rosary, fragile yet grounded, intimate yet expansive. Traditionally a tool for solitary prayer, the rosary here becomes a site for collective presence and shared ritual.
By displacing it into the exhibition space, the act of repetition, usually internal and personal, opens up to the gaze and breath of others. Spectators are invited to move alongside it, to reflect, to connect, to participate.
Alongside the rosary, I created small editions of poetic compositions written in an invented language, a lyrical fusion of dialect and French, that evoke an imagined world shaped by memory, care and transformation.
Participatory performance, variable duration, 2017
Acorns, terracotta, nuts
30 m
Photo: Silina Syan
Tout un s’oinde
de peste et de coer,
sù lu mar brille
et le sante mal addore
Nu suffle de spirit
que s’arvoit,
je importe de tremé tout le joure dans le chose
La chouett la nuit ne m’abbandon, comme si la faim elle arson
Le povre suspir dontre s’arruine, chante qui voit l’hommine est vicine
