Oh dear!
This is a palm tree made from old car tyres (des pneus) by DOUGLAS WHITE!
and these are plaster casts of everyday packageing covering the floor of a small room by LUCIE CHAUMONT!
I photographed them in an exhibition in Paris called Rehab in the Espace Fondation EDF (élécricité de France). The theme of the exhibition is "the use of recycled materials in contempory artistic creations".
Sorry? You said "artistic"? The artists desire is not to moralise but to (engager une réflexion moralisatrice) but to remain distant from the subject of poetry, humour and enchantment. Well, you can say they have succeeded!
I was shocked! EDF acts as patron of the arts (mécène). I honestly think they would be better lowering (baisser) ordinary people's electricity bills (facture) than using the public's money to encourage "art" like this!
I prefer this one by Lucie Chaumont found on the net, called "les catastrophes sont naturelles". It's 140cms high, made of corrugated cardboard (du carton ondulé)
These were not the "worst". I wasn't supposed to take photos, but managed to take these two.
perhaps the most ridiculous was the work of MARIO D'SOUZA made of blocks of foam (de la mousse) pushed into metal school chairs. I couldn't believe my eyes. You can see them on the site.
The "best", or the one I preferred was made with intricately carved cardboard (du carton sculpté) by EVA JOSPIN It was 2m X 2m, quite big, and represented a lot of work.
