Ses Os, Bones, Un Endroit

Frac Grand Large

Dunkirk, France

2019

Tania Mouraud

On the occasion of the Art & Industrie triennale – GIGANTISME, Rubis Mécénat cultural fund, in association with the Frac Grand Large – Hauts-de-France, commissioned artist Tania Mouraud to produce three original monumental works for the Rubis Terminal site in the Port of Dunkirk and on a city-centre façade.

The two tanks located at the Rubis Terminal port site will feature a quotation from Shakespeare’s Tempest, in French and English:
Ses os se sont changés en corail. Perles sont devenus ses yeux.
Of his bones are coral made. Those are pearls that were his eyes. 

For the city-centre façade, Tania Mouraud has chosen a sentence tailored to the site:
Un endroit pour rêver dans chaque ville, espace-éternité. 

The fact that it is so hard to read turns this gigantic text into an abstract, geometric decor that highlights the architecture. Discovering the text in the course of strolls brings walkers back to their own dreams of the absolute while alleviating the loneliness that is inherent to urban life.

Art & Industrie triennale – GIGANTISME

Curated by Anna Colin & Camille Richert

Tania Mouraud

Tania Mouraud was born in 1942 in Paris, France. She lives and works in Colombiers, France.

From the end of the sixties, Tania Mouraud's work explores the relation between art and social connections through various medium such as painting, installation, photo, sound, video, performance, etc.She proposes to add a meditation room to our standard apartments (1968). On 54 billboards in Paris (1977) she declares her disapproval of a society glorifying consumption at the expense of individuals . She investigates the decorative relation between art and war as well as the limitation of perception by creating "mots de forme" (words of shape) (1989). From 1998, she uses photo, sound and video examining different aspects of History and Life.