Conserves (Preserves)2024

This body of work explore the notion of preservation and it’s relationship with death and fantaisy. If something needs to be preserved, it might mean it could be saved, but it also mean it is already dying.

The french word “conserver” can be apply to both can food and museum. Both of those place the object of their care in a context where it can no longer interact with anything, where it cannot be altered, thus refusing the passage of time, taking the object out of life and use, and metaphorically placing it in eternal death. I wondered what it would look like to bottle up culture, as if someone was trying to keep intact some distant and fantasized version of it.