At the origins of the origins – ECOLINT

We are delighted — the students of the International School of Geneva and I — to invite you to the opening of the exhibition Origins, which they have organized on Thursday, September 25 at 5 p.m. at the Centre des Arts, Ecolint.

After their visit to my studio last spring, accompanied by their mentors Manuel Fadat and Mélanie Delaune, they invited me to present the present and future of Sèves Brutes and to engage in a conversation in the form of threads of thought with the other artists in the exhibition.

Created in Bordeaux, France, in 2018, the installation Sèves Brutes explores, in three movements, the traces of the living through the metaphor of raw sap — the primal flow that nourishes plants.

The future unfolds in five videos where the Earth pulses with life, inspiration after expiration, life after death — a vital momentum that fades into the past so that the next breath may rise.
The present captures, for a moment, presence and absence in a large ink drawing, recomposable like truth itself. It will partially unfold across the walls of the Centre des Arts.
The past, finally, takes the shape of glass fossils that ask the question: What remains when nothing remains? Their absence will speak for them.

Origins — origins in the plural. Big Bang, first human, first cry, first consciousness… a dizzying theme, especially for curators at the beginning of their journey. They have invited artists who explore the wheres, the whens, the whats, the hows, and all their variations.

On the morning of the opening, a poetic conversation will be written on the glass surfaces of the art space — my threads of thought in dialogue with the other artists in the exhibition.
What are we seeking in this quest?

You and I know there are only new beginnings — as Bereshit teaches us about the creation of the world. As the Jewish year begins anew, and as the world’s chaos continues to break us against one another, I wish for change.

I wish that, strengthened by our roots — roots that inevitably intertwine and nourish one another — we may move toward a radiant tomorrow.

May that tomorrow begin today.