LES RACINES DU MAL
FROM MAY, 16 2009
This metal construction conjures up both the complex movement of the spider and an underground root-like extension; it rises like a lamp-post and at dusk, sheds light on the depth of darkness. Standing before it, the human being is exiled from it, removed from all certainty. The space outlined by this structure paradoxically offers shelter: chairs can bet set up within it. Beyond illusion, a sense of uneasiness remains: the long articulated legs seem hardly to hold still. Should it not to be feared that the supernatural animal walks again, blind to what it will crush? In this way the work brings together ethics and science fiction.
Work devised for the 27th São Paulo Biennial, 2006.
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Work from the Centre national des arts plastiques - fonds national des arts plastiques.
BIOGRAPHY
Born in 1968, Didier Fiuza Faustino, lives and works in Paris, France. Artist and architect, he graduates from the Paris-Villemin School of Architecture in 1995. Between 1996 and 2001, he is co-founder of the LAPS Laboratory in Paris, but also of an arts review, an art studio and a multidisciplinary collective.
Didier Fiuza Faustino, known for his insubordinate points of view, rises up against the blandness of today’s cities. He calls for a boundary-breaking architecture which would materialize on the fringes of the city or on vacant lots: an architecture he calls “misleading” for it gives back its freedom to the individual.
