Cédric Maridet: FRAGMENTS OF FUTURE HISTORIES

Cédric Maridet

Cédric Maridet: FRAGMENTS OF FUTURE HISTORIES

05 Mar 2016 - 23 Apr 2016

“Fragments of Future Histories” is a collection of videos, objects, installations, photographs and sculptures that embodies Cedric Maridet’s practice that relies on intensive field works and research from literature, science or history. Inspired by fieldwork in the Arctic Circle and especially in the abandoned Russian mining town of Pyramida in the Archipelago of Svalbard, the works unfold a mesh of narratives based on the poles and Mars’ explorations to form new fictional encounters where past and future coalesce. The exhibition induces an investigation of the connections between man and the exploration of his environment.

Artworks (25)

Installation view

Installation view

Installation view

Cédric Maridet

We were drifting all along

Cédric Maridet

We thought it would not matter

Cédric Maridet

To strive, to seek, to find and not to yield

Cédric Maridet

We thought we had time

Cédric Maridet

To produce is a passion; to consume is only a taste

Installation view

Installation view

Installation view

Cédric Maridet

We were drifting all along

Cédric Maridet

We thought it would not matter

Cédric Maridet

To strive, to seek, to find and not to yield

Cédric Maridet

We thought we had time

Cédric Maridet

To produce is a passion; to consume is only a taste

Cédric Maridet

To get closer to the light

Cédric Maridet

We thought we would live forever

Cédric Maridet

Rise, Fall

Cédric Maridet

Everything was beautiful, nothing hurt.

Cédric Maridet

I know nothing and I persisted in the faith that the time of cruel miracles was not past.

Cédric Maridet

For there can be neither end nor beginning.

Cédric Maridet

And I have by me, for my comfort, two strange white owers— shrivelled now, and brown and at and brittle—to witness that even when mind and strength had gone, gratitude and a mutual tenderness still lived on in the heart of man.