Repriser

Philippe Poupet is an ambitious man. He’s also an installation artist from France who decided to take on Barranquilla, an industries city on the Northern Caribbean coast of Colombia (it’s also where Shakira was born).

From a simple exercise, a procedure previously agreed by all, Philippe proposes a group of people, artists and/or students to participate for several successive meetings in the development of an experimental mural drawing in Barranquilla’s Colombian-French culture center.

The process itself shapes the space with the used patterns. The idea is to work on another way to create a trace with the help of a very common pattern that resembles a wire between two houses, a field border, a jail, generating new images of a reality often painful. However, it isn’t the representation for this reality what interests the artist, but the fact of playing with a patters that, out of context, creates another network and give meaning to a collective work that will surprise, in an abstract trap, the visitor.

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