bénédicte reverchon exhibition silo

Silo / 2000

Made during the residency in Niort, the silo is a work that brings together creative conditions that are very different from my way of working. I found myself having to create in a very short time, where I like to leave time for reflection and decantation. The interest of the residence was there in my eyes, give me the opportunity to work away from the usual benchmarks. The urgency has favored surveying in the landscape with mental progression. The trigger was the silo as an architectural element anchored in the territory.
His material presence imposed itself on me. Something in him went beyond his purely utilitarian character. From there, the question was to go beyond this frontal image of documentary type to give it a life of its own. A desire to perforate this photographic shell led me to use the sound by broadcasting a text (The dépeupleur S.Beckett) in counterpoint to the large format image. A kind of hidden life of an invisible world.