Sébastien VENIAT Thesauri Year of production:... Lot 6

Sébastien VENIAT Thesauri Year of production: 2017 Subject: Twenty bound inventory records (photography, text, sound device by QR code). Inkjet printing and lamination. Dimensions : 21 x 29.7 cm Biography, presentation of artistic approach : Born on 28 May 1978 in Versailles, Sébastien Veniat lives and works in Yvetot. Anodyne for some, precious for others, we maintain sometimes complex relationships with certain objects. Inherited, ®purchased, given, found, recovered, recycled, ... We weave with the objects often very strong emotional bonds. They participate in the intimate and social construction of the individual. While the Internet of Things is gradually entering public and private spaces and invites itself into our daily life, what is the future of tangible objects now considered obsolete, these former life companions that we are getting rid of? Should they join the collections of an archaeology of the present? Following the example of the Palissy database, whose objective is to list the French movable heritage, 20 objects deposited in the donation box of the Citizen Kiosk Paris 12 have been listed and inventoried in the form of inventory notices. Moving from the private to the public sphere, the 20 inventoried objects dialogue and stage a game of transitory contrasts. Like a cabinet of curiosities, the heterogeneity of the objects presented invites dialogue, discovery, travel, curiosity, the incongruous, the bizarre, the aesthetic, the unusual, ... ; a "summary of the world" in the words of historian Gilles Thibault. Website: https:/ /www.sebastienveniat.com/ Location of the work: nc - Availability of the work: nc