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Event (durational sculpture): Friche du Palais de Tokyo, Paris (and then at Halles de la Fonderie, Geneva, Switzerland)
Duration: 12 hours | Dimensions: 80 metres | Height of cable: 3.5 metres | Materials: 800 sparklers, 1.5mm cable
A “spark” is kept alight for more than 12 hours, over two consecutive days, of a two day exhibition. From nightfall until midnight, the spark traces a slow, gradual, uninterrupted trajectory across the expansive fallow space. As the spark waltzes forth, its incandescent direction eventually delineates a single drawn line. The fleeting, ephemeral nature of a tiny spark becomes prolonged, sustained - its essence of ‘being’ reconsidered.