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Floor/Ceiling Piece (ten hours walking and talking in Paris with Adrian McGrath)


2014
Diptych
gesso and black paint on two pine boards (each 120x40x
1.8 cm), engraved trajectory done from memory by Adrian McGrath of a day long walk taken conjointly with Vittorio Santoro to all of the 21 locations where James Joyce stayed, worked and lived in Paris. One
of the boards is positioned on the floor and the other one is mounted on the ceiling.
Unique

Photo: Aurelien Mole
Installation view: Galerie Jérôme Poggi, Paris, Dec. 2014 (detail)

I asked an artist friend (Adrian McGrath) that has just moved
to Paris from Dublin, to conjointly walk for a day to all
of the Paris addresses where James Joyce had stayed, worked and lived. The pilgrimage was a sort of a pretext to taking the time to walk and talk for about 10 hours (the time we spent going from one location to another visiting 21 of them).
We decided to approach basical-
ly three different topics during our walk: Why choose Paris? Does an artist need an intellec-
tually stimulating environment for creation? Is happines always to be maintained or it will ever just naturally be existent? And the relation about locations associations wheter that be books, Joyce or films, and some sort of contection relaying all of it.




 

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