Air de l'océan
"Ocean Air"
4’000 discarted plastic bags
Technical support: La Générale
Collection of descarted plastic bags in collaboration with: Les Filles du Facteur
Thanks to: Alexandre Pachiaudi, Jean-Philippe Gervais, Peter Manale, Francis Togo, Mansoureh Aalaii, Edin Buitenhuis, Kim
Last but not least: "Un grand Merci! à tous ceux et celles dont les sacs se sont engagés dans cette aventure..."
La Générale
Paris, 2013
Air de l'océan – does it mean the little packets of air in the plastic bags; an «Air de Paris» of the 21th century; the air of our time, which we are running out of?...
In «Air de l’océan», Ocean Air, a giant wave is deployed in space as well as in time. The project begins to take shape as the local inhabitants collect discarded plastic bags. The collected bags become the substance of the wave, like a myriad of pixels floating in the space.
As pictured here, it extends across the space of La Générale, formerly the site of an electric power relay station in the centre of Paris. Each time the installation is taken down, the collection of sacks continues on its way – not to the ocean, but rather to organisations that develop arts and crafts ateliers to creatively recycle materials in the context of social projects.
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