INSTALLATION ‘TOUT DOIT DISPARAITRE’
The work of the French artist Jean-François Boclé “Tout doit disparaître” and ‘Tu me copieras’ is presented in the French Institute, under the framework of the 1st Thessaloniki Biennale of Contemporary Art. It is an installation consisting of a hundreds of plastic blue bags and a videoprojection.

The work of Jean-François Boclé is polysemic – one might even say polyphonic. The installation Tout doit disparaître! (Everything must go!) evokes the memory of millions of human beings cast into the depths during the long transatlantic voyage, or sold as commodities and now erased from history. The immediacy of this evocation coincides with a highly contemporary image of our own societies.  These plastic bags, ‘objects evoking both exchange and loss, form the archaeology of a mercantile present, summoning up those herded together in sorting centres, tied to airplane seats in planes about to take off, clandestine and erased, defeated by voyages and shipwrecks’.
Jean-François Boclé
 

Curated by: Jan-Erik Lundström

In cooperation with the French Institute of Thessaloniki.
From July 11 till September 30th at the French Institute exhibition venue.

Opening July 11, 20.30