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Feuilles Mortes. Briquette
ephemeral sculpture
fallen leaves, 183 x 70 x 113 cm
2016
Commission for the Moscow State Architectural and Natural Landscape Museum Kolomenskoe
Commission
unique, re-enactable
courtesy of the artist
images (c) Katya Ev
Feuilles Mortes. Briquette [Dead Leaves. Brick] is an ephemeral sculpture realized specifically for the State Architectural and Natural Museum Kolomenskoe in Moscow. The sculpture is inspired by typical poor Soviet social housing that overwhelmed Moscow since 60s called Kroushchyovka or Krushchev slum. At the same time the title of the piece - dead leaves - refers to the nostalgic love poem of the french surrealist author Jacques Prévert that gave origin to a famous French song.
The sculpture is a model of a typical Moscow Kroushchyovka yet reduced to a human scale. Its length is 183 cm, the reference number introduced by Le Corbusier for the human size. The artist takes as a material the most commun in the autumn, element of the urban landscape, while the ephemeral character of the sculpture refers to the perility of Kroushchyovkas known for numerous problems of conservation and exploitation because of the low-cost materials.
The sculpture was realised in April 2014, and disappeared in December 2014 by means of natural degradation.
