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Les ongles de pieds du diable DEVIL'S TOENAILS Variable dimensions, gryphaea plaster moulds, laminated digital printing, 2020. While I was exploring a bunker, in the middle of a field that had just been plowed, near the village of Delme. In France, I discovered gryphaeas. They are prehistoric mollusc fossils pushed by the overturned earth. There, I find my key to an open-air archive. By collecting and then moulding these fossils. Plaster (a material from gypsum which is close to the natural composition of these fossils). I see the fossils as guides and I would like the spectator to encounter them by accidental. It was very common to discover those mollusc in Great Britain during Middle Ages. According to their appearance, I was intimately convinced that they were the devil’s toenails. This was the starting of my alternative archaeology proposal. It is like an archive that can be read by walking through space. Some of them have haikus (short Japanese poems that have the magnificence of saying and celebrating the elusiveness of the things around them). Those poems are readable on their surface. They are fragments of the history of Delme and its surroundings like immersive testimonies.
Copyright © 2021 · Tous droits réservés · Anthony Visconti
Les ongles de pieds du diable DEVIL'S TOENAILS Variable dimensions, gryphaea plaster moulds, laminated digital printing, 2020. While I was exploring a bunker, in the middle of a field that had just been plowed, near the village of Delme. In France, I discovered gryphaeas. They are prehistoric mollusc fossils pushed by the overturned earth. There, I find my key to an open-air archive. By collecting and then moulding these fossils. Plaster (a material from gypsum which is close to the natural composition of these fossils). I see the fossils as guides and I would like the spectator to encounter them by accidental. It was very common to discover those mollusc in Great Britain during Middle Ages. According to their appearance, I was intimately convinced that they were the devil’s toenails. This was the starting of my alternative archaeology proposal. It is like an archive that can be read by walking through space. Some of them have haikus (short Japanese poems that have the magnificence of saying and celebrating the elusiveness of the things around them). Those poems are readable on their surface. They are fragments of the history of Delme and its surroundings like immersive testimonies.
Copyright © 2021 · Tous droits réservés · Anthony Visconti
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Les ongles de pieds du diable DEVIL'S TOENAILS Variable dimensions, gryphaea plaster moulds, laminated digital printing, 2020. While I was exploring a bunker, in the middle of a field that had just been plowed, near the village of Delme. In France, I discovered gryphaeas. They are prehistoric mollusc fossils pushed by the overturned earth. There, I find my key to an open-air archive. By collecting and then moulding these fossils. Plaster (a material from gypsum which is close to the natural composition of these fossils). I see the fossils as guides and I would like the spectator to encounter them by accidental. It was very common to discover those mollusc in Great Britain during Middle Ages. According to their appearance, I was intimately convinced that they were the devil’s toenails. This was the starting of my alternative archaeology proposal. It is like an archive that can be read by walking through space. Some of them have haikus (short Japanese poems that have the magnificence of saying and celebrating the elusiveness of the things around them). Those poems are readable on their surface. They are fragments of the history of Delme and its surroundings like immersive testimonies.
Copyright © 2021 · Tous droits réservés · Anthony Visconti
EN
Les ongles de pieds du diable DEVIL'S TOENAILS Variable dimensions, gryphaea plaster moulds, laminated digital printing, 2020. While I was exploring a bunker, in the middle of a field that had just been plowed, near the village of Delme. In France, I discovered gryphaeas. They are prehistoric mollusc fossils pushed by the overturned earth. There, I find my key to an open-air archive. By collecting and then moulding these fossils. Plaster (a material from gypsum which is close to the natural composition of these fossils). I see the fossils as guides and I would like the spectator to encounter them by accidental. It was very common to discover those mollusc in Great Britain during Middle Ages. According to their appearance, I was intimately convinced that they were the devil’s toenails. This was the starting of my alternative archaeology proposal. It is like an archive that can be read by walking through space. Some of them have haikus (short Japanese poems that have the magnificence of saying and celebrating the elusiveness of the things around them). Those poems are readable on their surface. They are fragments of the history of Delme and its surroundings like immersive testimonies.
Copyright © 2021 · Tous droits réservés · Anthony Visconti