"The highest symbol for the people is the cobblestone.
One walks on it, until it falls on your head"- Victor Hugo
The idea is light
The proposal is to paint well known pictures.
It can be famous paintings, brand marks, logos, personalities, signs...all the images and symbols seen in today's visual culture.This task is endless: there is an infinity of images. The choice of pictures is automatically related to the artist's environment.
The support is heavy
Symbolizing duration, the support is rock. It's picked from the streets of Paris. Ancient pavement stones, cobblestones. Each single rock serves as canvas for a particular representation.
"Le pave" in french also means "the street" and it's toughness. It represents the organised public area in which all the social actors meet in reasonable order, or the chaos when they are used as weapons and barricades in the diffenrent revolts.
Only cobblestones that have really been used as such in the streets of Paris are utilized. They are loaded with history.
