2020. Technique: Folded paper, pastel colors. Special adhesive fixation. Support: “Trompe l’oeil” decor of the studios of plus belle la vie. Marseille.
By a happy connection of chance (thanks Alex), I was able to visit the studios of plus belle la vie. Television series of the public channel that I have been following since its start, thanks to my grandmother! Indeed, for decades, mémé has not missed a single episode of this French series whose scenario stuck to current events.
And when I love my loved ones, I take the time to live their passions in their company… So here I am regularly (me who has not had a TV for many years) following the adventures of the protagonists. And what I liked was what was shown to grandma who, isolated in her farm in the mountains, does not really know any other standard than the “standardized heterosexual white” was able to follow the adventures of human beings who do not look like her: people of a nice range of “camaïeu” skin colors, lesbian couples, gays, non-binary people, and current topics: smoking joints, strikes and civil disobedience (and so on).
It’s a big shortcut but it allowed us to discuss various subjects that are close to my heart. Open-mindedness, tolerance, representation of all.
In short, all this to evoke my “emotional” connection to this series.
And during the impromptu visit to the studios, there I was talking with the decoration team, telling them about my work and offering them a small mural intervention.
The idea remained in a corner and some time later I was lucky enough to be contacted again to invest a wall, between the Celestial and the Mistral bar: joy and consecration to be able to appear on TV for…. Mémé!
I was nevertheless asked to create a piece without too bright colors otherwise on the screen it would have stood out too much. Since I hold on to my artistic line and I do not want to deviate from spectral colors: I created a rather “pastel” work, keeping the rainbow.
Several times the wall was in the background in the episodes, alas Mémé, with her approximate vision, missed them more than once my little paper birds….
Thank you Alex, thank you Mémé and thank you the team of Plus Belle La Vie!
For a TV representative of France, multicultural and multifaceted, inclusive and rich!