Code Earth - Horizons 2008
Code Earth… Monumental Installation for Le Puy de la Tâche in Chambon-sur-Lac by Emmanuel Cartillier
Emmanuel Cartillier is a french artist born in Dijon in 1967.
For him, creating is a very personal way of expressing an uncomfortable living situation in a society that is deaf and blind to world suffering ; Land Art exprim him.
The Code Earth (Code Terre in french) installation shows the earth as, a consumer product just like any other, on which the only thing missing is a barcode scaled to size (magnified 2000 times).
Placed on a slope of the Puy de la Tâche, its straight lines evoke the toil of the earth : the labour preceding all harvests and the geological history of le Puy with its cooled down black lava streams.
However, optimism wins over as displayed in the form of a telephone number under the code, a path to the words of 1st grade pupils from Chambon-sur-Lac on our relations with the land.
Composition/Dimensions/Material
- Biodegradable plastic films
- Dimensions: 80 meters by 60 meters
Code Earth in photos
Laetitia Paris.
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