Thomas Tronel-Gauthier - L'absente
Thomas Tronel-Gauthier - L'absente (2013)

The missing one
2013
Sand, resin
63 x 27,5 x 25,6 inches (160 cm x 70 x 65 cm)
production : Albert Chanot Art Center – Clamart

Deserted receptacle marked by a double absence of bodies, just as much the bather as the water. This bathtub still resonates with the domestic past and inhabited the place while the wave of sand that crosses it reflects the passage of water and life. The rise of the sands, continuing its contamination of the contents of the container, brings us back to the slow granular disintegration of what was formed. This restored entity of its dissolution exhibits its overflow and questions the void and the absence.

(to Lhasa de Sela.)

Thomas Tronel-Gauthier - L'absente (2013)
Thomas Tronel-Gauthier - L'absente (2013)
Thomas Tronel-Gauthier - L'absente (2013)
Vues de l'exposition "N'habite plus à l'adresse indiquée", Centre d'art Albert Chanot, Clamart, 2013