Chevail de Troie (Trojan Horse), The Works Art & Design Festival, Sir Winston Churchill Square, Edmonton, Alberta (Canada) 2024

Deployed with irony at the heart of the urban landscape, the monumental installation CHEVAL DE TROIE (Trojan Horse) orchestrates a spatial saturation through the massive accumulation of colorful objects sourced from our familiar domestic environments. Confronting citizens from the outset with notions of systemic expansion and excess, this polymorphous work utilizes the aesthetics of play and the seduction of bright colors as a strategy for visual infiltration.

Beneath this playful appearance lies a more unsettling, underlying tension. By appropriating the constructive grammar of makeshift shelters and temporary structures, the installation transforms into an urban parasite that questions the vulnerability of our regulated territories. The work thus operates as a poetic and political warning, simulating a potential threat face to the proliferation of our consumerist material culture.