Week-end
Week-end is an installation consisting of two life-size chrome car bonnets mounted side by side on a wall. As they are removed from their original context and visibly damaged, their original function is permanently lost. The shocks that have deformed them introduce the notions of fragility and disappearance. Through these two bonnets, which are precisely the same, Franck David evokes a contradictory mastery of the accident. The perplexity caused by this discordance is accentuated by the title of the work, Week-end, which seems inappropriate. As is often the case in the artist’s work, the object is fragmented, isolated from its environment. Displaced and modified in this way, its evocative potential is increased rather than diminished, and thus gives rise to various poetic or philosophical interpretations in the viewer’s imagination.
Text written by Margaux Granier as part of the partnership between the École du Louvre and Lafayette Anticipations – Fonds de dotation Famille Moulin.
Exhibitions
FRAC - Normandie Rouen, Sotteville-lès-Rouen (France)
from 18 Apr to 23 Aug 2009
La Galerie des Galeries, Paris (France)
from 09 Oct to 06 Dec 2008
Galerie Chez Valentin, Paris (France)
from 09 Jul to 02 Aug 2003
Franck David
Born in 1966 in Montreuil, France
Franck David s’inspire principalement d’objets du quotidien qu’il détourne en n’en retenant qu’un seul détail. En l’absence de narration apparente, son œuvre hétéroclite composée d’installations et de dispositifs audiovisuels est aussi énigmatique que déroutante. Chacune des créations de cet artiste qui refuse toutes les étiquettes relève d’une esthétique différente – une hétérogénéité volontaire qui a pour vocation de susciter un questionnement chez le spectateur. Ce détournement des éléments du quotidien nous entraîne dans un univers à la fois familier et inconnu qui perturbe notre perception et notre rapport au monde.
