David AYOUN

Visual & sound artist, filmmaker & performer

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Action│installation - SITE SPECIFIC INDIA

Burned Dust (2007)

Action and site specific installation│dust, leaves, architecture│Fine Arts Faculty M.S.U. Vadodara, India


 A garden of plants and animals. Faculty is inhabited of monkeys, birds, insects and lizards. Each being lives here near human in a relation of respect and authority of territory.
The gardeners are there to sweep, sprinkle, scrape, collect, cut or burn, in an order of actions not imposed ; to maintain the dignity of the plants and the trees in life.

While entering faculty, a vast ground space is framed by a wall, which isolates from the boulevard. The building Departments Sculpture and Painting skirts its left part. It rises, in balconies, on two oors. Five years earlier a concrete circle had been made to accommodate performances of music and dances. This circle disappeared today.


The presence of the gardeners is not enough to maintain Faculty in state. A considerable quantity of sheets still papers many places. Sufficient so that very joined together, they cover the surface of the old concrete circle in a diameter of fifteen meter. Burned since its center, fire is spread on the sides at constant speed. It ends naturally.

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