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Collectif Fact, Relief6
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The extrusion of ants
The city is a complex space. So complex even, that to list its parts would be like describing each and every human activity. The sheer numbers of signs and activities, and the way they intertwine, form actual knots and nodes, whose parts are inextricable.
This, however, is precisely what collectif_fact has been doing for several years- Architecture, city-planning, vehicles, signs, advertising, and users are all extracted, cut out, and broken down as to be re-combined and re-constructed.
Most collectif_fact projects operate by means of samplings and extrusions. Based on photos, videos and digital files, elements are selected and in an initial phase isolated, then replace in their original setting, and even in different situations. But the operation has nevertheless left sequels behind. Quite intentionally the collage is visible and the layers reveal unexpected connections. The spatiality changes, the volume become flat tints and lines, the space is deconstructed and temporalized. Each project explores new relations and reveals different challenges those of the societies that human being live in and create.
Simon Lamunière
translated by Simon Pleasance
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