Record of the invisible

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Ismaïl Bahri, Exhibition view, Le Grand Café, Saint-Nazaire, 2021

Record of the invisible


In situ installation
Set of six columns, plexiglass, mud from the Brivet river (Saint-Nazaire)
Diameter 15 cm
Height 3,50 m
2021


Produced by Le Grand Café – Centre d’Art Contemporain, Saint-Nazaire


For Chroniques de l’invisible (Record of the invisible), Ismaïl Bahri gives us a specific observation of Saint-Nazaire’s organic and (pre)historic territory. With this installation he extracts a geological sample from the landscape and literally decants it inside Le Grand Café. This deep black material extracted from the mouth of the River Brivet and imprisoned in a slab or in columns of plexiglass, will be transformed during the exhibition, while the void that it left in the landscape is slowly absorbed. 

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Ismaïl Bahri, Exhibition view, Le Grand Café, Saint-Nazaire, 2021
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Ismaïl Bahri, Exhibition view, Le Grand Café, Saint-Nazaire, 2021
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Ismaïl Bahri, Exhibition view, Le Grand Café, Saint-Nazaire, 2021