Fondation @ Pont du Gard

Nicolas Tourte’s Fondation video installation echoes a sad fact that scientists are warning us about: ice is no longer eternal. While we see a world disappearing, melting ice is not without effect on ecosystems… It’s as if our societies, launched in a frantic race for profits and abundance, exploitation and servitude, had decided on their ends, their erasure, their disappearance.

Through the aesthetics of his work, the artist literally translates that the “foundations” on which it rests seem to disintegrate to the rhythm of the melting ice. In creating this piece, Nicolas Tourte drew inspiration from the techniques used to produce advertising signs. The word Fondation is tilted lengthwise, as if the sign had fallen into a puddle of water. A video projection creates a textural mapping of the sign’s surface, in shades of blue, grey and white, playing with the light reflections inherent in ice.

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