Because everything is built on sand

2021

Installation: mixed materials (charcoal drawings, brick dust, city maps, punched cards, lace, various fabrics...).

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One (01) work: variable dimensions (~550 x 400 x 150cm).

Mixed supports.

Work carried out within the scope of the research and creation residency RAU #6 (Regards d'Artistes sur l'Urbanisme), in the district of Quadrilatère des Piscines in August - September 2021.

A production by Groupe A - Coopérative culturelle.

Funding: Région Hauts-de-France, Sem Ville Renouvelée, PIC Union.
                              

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"Eduardo Hargreaves weaves a network of plastic correspondences between the supporting pillars of buildings under renovation and the mesh of different fabrics, between the lines of force of an urban development plan and those of detailed drawings in charcoal and brick dust.

This installation includes a symbolic representation of the tensions inherent in the superposition of the different entities that make up a territory, and which in one way or another preside over its transfiguration.

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It is a matter of social struggles and capitalist exploitation as well as positioning the culture, participating  in the economic and political upheavals that, over time, constrain or free up spaces. It is also a question of a suspended time, which balances between an industrial past undeniably inscribed in the city of Tourcoing and the appearance of new districts that have been completely redefined, turning resolutely towards a renovation of the city.

This begs the question of who of what is capable of sustaining anything."

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Pascal Marquilly