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Arche carrond 01

24 x 30 cm

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Arche carrond 02

24 x 30 cm

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Arche carrond 03

24 x 30 cm

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Arche carrond 04

24 x 30 cm

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Arche carrond 05

24 x 30 cm

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Arche carrond 06

24 x 30 cm

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Arche carrond 07

24 x 30 cm

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Arche carrond 08

24 x 30 cm

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Arche carrond, 2015. icon

This series consists of 9 serigraphs on colored canson paper, 1 print was made by color. I positioned the CARROND with the half-square at the bottom and the semicircle at the top, so that it forms an arch. On each work stands out 6 arches, creating a linear perspective towards a vanishing point located on the horizon line.

From the Latin "arca" denoting a chest, the arch, often known for being an architectural form, is also an object intended to protect. The arches represented here evoke the 6 planetary boundarie already exceeded, or about to be exceeded, according to the last scientific studies.

Planetary boundaries are the thresholds that humanity should not exceed in order not to compromise the favorable conditions under which it has been able to develop. The concept was defined in 2009 by an international team of 26 researchers in an article published in the journals Nature and Ecology and Society.

The 9 planetary boundaries are: climate change, erosion of biodiversity, disruption of biogeochemical cycles of nitrogen and phosphorus, changes in land use, ocean acidification, global water use, depletion of the ozone layer, introduction of new entities into the environment (chemical pollution) and increase of aerosols in the atmosphere. The first 6 are those that have been exceeded.

This series evokes how we are today blithely, and with a disconcerting lightness, crossing fundamental tipping points for the habitability of our planet. The minimalist aesthetic of the works is intended as a reflection that counterbalances the seriousness of the long-term issues. Our linear development models, which we reproduce from year to year, reduce the lifespan of the living and that of future generations. Our ability to move towards more sobriety is for me a hope to cultivate.