LOST IN TRANSLATION - Chapter 4 Teshima
Onto Teshima. This whole trip stemmed from a heart-beat as I told you in the first chapter. But let’s go back a little to Christian Boltanski. It was in 2010 when he created the third edition of Monumenta. An artist is asked every year to use the whole of the Grand Palais with an installation.
Boltanski - Monumenta 2010 Boltanski’s work brought home the ineluctability of death and the fragility of human life. I can remember so well as it was a powerful physical and psychological experience, with the spectator placed "in the heart" of the work rather than looking on. Visitors were welcomed by a wall of ageing metal before discovering, beneath the cupola roof, a mountainous pile of clothes. A crane, - randomly grabbed garments from the pile, discarding others, while around the Nave clothes were laid out on the floor in a grid of rectangles to the accompaniment of amplified heartbeat. Every sound was different. Christian Boltanski was deeply marked by the memor