The Sunken Island
2015
Wooden chest, gray tinted silicon, resin tinted with red ochre pigment
unique piece
Located and isolated far away in the Pacific Ocean, Hiva Oa is a Polynesian island full of history and culture, with a singular volcanic relief. The numerical precision of its cartographic restitution confronts here an extrusion of material generated by its burial in a soft material. A disaster scenario fossilized through casting, which creates a new mysterious landscape, called "The sunken island", where the container-tool coexists in one entity, the gray silicone matrix in negative, and its resin product tinted with red ocher pigment extracted from the soil. An invitation to travel that takes place like a dive between myth and reality in the heart of this old wooden chest. |