As part of the exhibition-itinerary Rivages - 2e rencontre avec l’art sur le littoral de la Baie de Saint-Brieuc, organised by the ODDC (now Itinéraires Bis), artistic direction Véronique Vauvrecy.
A series of sentences, engraved on brass plaques and fixed on the back of public benches at three locations: Erquy, Saint-Quay-Portrieux and Saint-Brieuc. The benches are all facing the sea, an invitation to contemplation and revery. The sentences, formulated as answers to an unknown, mysterious question, are about time, memory, expectation, they are fragments of a conversation or an inner monologue, filled with the melancholy of a Virginia Woolf novel...
Two or three times a week.
When the weather is fine.
More and more often.
Never on Sundays.
Every morning when I wake up.
As soon as I can.
Once upon a lifetime.
… before ...
At low tide.
Not now.
About eight years ago.
… I don’t know ...
When he comes back ...
Maybe never.
In october 1931.
When they found her ...
When I was young ...
One day ...
Tomorrow ...
Always.
… elsewhere ...
Photos : Jakob Gautel, and Véronique Vauvrecy for the photomontage with the text.