Giving the skeleton back to the whale

“Giving the skeleton back to the whale” is an installation designed to occupy a park or a city centre. Because of its modular composition, it is designed to adapt to each site. It is a prelude to a larger-scale project. Damaged cubes emerge more or less from the ground, evoking ruins… a buried world, perhaps extraordinary, is partially revealed. They can be transformed, according to each person’s wishes, into urban furniture or a variety of play areas.

Moreover, the Blocks are an ecological plea… cracked concrete and plastic, symbols and images of our civilisations, they are the remains of the future.

As a child in Sète, we often went for walks in the garden of the Oceanographic Museum. There was a whale skeleton there, half buried in the ground. I tried to bring this memory back to life with this project.

One sculpture is still on show in the sculpture park of Château Vargoz, in Sérignan.

Initially two projects were envisaged: an installation of several blocks or a single monumental sculpture.

The beginnings of this work took shape during the Art Lab City residency.