Soon on ArtJaws, the French duo Magali Daniaux and Cédric Pigot will present N66°50.629′ – W162°34.798′, a new artwork created exclusively for the platform. Called The Diluted Hours and developed during 2014-2015 in Alaska, this project brings us to the discovery of its landscapes but also points the climate changes currently impacting the region. N66°50.629′ – W162°34.798′ is a poetic vinyle, shortly to be discovered on ArtJaws.
« In 2014 we were invited by Julie Decker, the director of the Anchorage Museum to work in Alaska. There is a political agenda, from 2015 to 2017, the US will take the chairmanship of the Arctic Council. In 2014 we traveled through Alaska, discovering the land, the inhabitants. Even if all the Arctic areas share the same challenges facing climate change, industrialisation and urban development, this part of the Arctic has nothing in common with the Arctic we knew. It’s wild, there is a total lack of infrastructures and the indigenous culture is very lively.
N66°50.629′ – W162°34.798′
2015
Clear vinyl with the ashes of the woodfire
Side A : The Diluted Hours, sound poetry / Side B : Music
Limited Edition of 50 copies
In May 2015 we were in residence at Akademie Schloss Solitude in Stuttgart, surrounded by forest. We bought a tree, beech wood, a European specie that doesn’t exist in Alaska. We cut it in logs, run experiment in our studio during 3 months and shipped the wood to Kotzebue, a little town that lies on a gravel spit, populated by over 3000 souls and surrounded by many archaeological sites. There is no trees here, just the flat tundra. We decided to create an archaeological anomaly, a trace for the future, burning this wood and adding some artifacts, like pieces of bone, balls of hair, corals, objects made of clay. It’s a poetic gesture. We like the idea that this action, its time, is way beyond human time. Here we deal with a geological time, the time of planet Earth.»
Magali Daniaux et Cédric Pigot work together since 2001. Their work explores all mediums and techniques, from photography to sculpture, from land art to digital art.
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