Panorama 14-Panorama 14

Frontiers move. Countries go missing when others break up, zones are defined, undefined, territories are drawn up on buried plots of land. Fragments of new lives are invented and highlight other ruins - between meteors fallen from the sky and collapsed monuments, sometimes emerging from underground.
In the beginning there was yesterday. The ruins, landscapes as evidence of a world which in turn goes round, gets damaged, accelerates or is museumified. What it keeps in memory regenerates on the map the trace of a path that will make sense - or not.
In both global and fragmentary fashion, Armand Morin seeks out places that he says he documents as well as revealing stories by extracting matter and writing from correlated time and history. The journeys take us to spheres that have collided, where myth mixes with rock and is closely observed.

By capturing and turning this into fiction, the artist takes an alternative path guided by the phenomena of erosion, of displacement or edification. The movement and scale of reality filtered through its own depiction, is sometimes manifest in the body of a work: microcosm with its own ecosystem based on nature or by provocation - in memory of a grand canyon, a quarry or a sky-scraper.

Behind these unravelled time-spaces, the story remains the thread. One that is woven from deepest Arizona to the outskirts of Miami, from our post-modern architecture to the vestiges of Pompeii, on the surfaces of experience - brought as counter-relief - of a being here and elsewhere at same time. History melting our civilisations like that forming the basis of a fundamentally poetic freedom of mankind.

At a time when some write to each other in closed circles, the others who project stories in stone, under the glass dome of a diorama, or on the stage of an Italian-style theatre, will one day see themselves wiped out by a sand storm.