Installation: 65 inch LCD screen, USB key, wood, video (1080p, 14h), 195 x 110 x 8 cm, 2020-2025
On the floor, a very large screen recreates the image of a gravestone whose inscriptions are constantly being rewritten, as if it were still alive. His first name, dates and epitaph are constantly being erased and rewritten, often very quickly and incompletely.
While the dead are, by definition, those who will never respond again, Grave establishes the fiction of a zombie death, perverted by technology, which continues to bug ad vitam æternam, constantly questioning its life and the best way to summarise it.
The project ironically evokes the transhumanist ideology of unlimited rewriting of life, where anything would always be possible, even after death. It is also a vision of hell, where souls would continue to wander without ever ending or finding peace.
The name on the gravestone alternates between John and Jane Doe, a term used in English-speaking countries for unknown buried persons. The date of death varies constantly, but the date of birth is always 2020, the date the work was originally created.
Produced with the support of Biennale Chroniques, 2020