The Work « The banquet" borrows its title from Plato's text. The installation, by raising the banquet table with the help of building bricks, offers a shift in gaze referring to several mixed notions: Monumentality and intimacy, political and poetic.
The table is set with plates, glasses, cutlery, tablecloth… and is decorated with bouquets of flowers and baskets of fruit.
-Instability and exclusion, social insecurity: The festive and familiar device of the banquet table is thus rendered impracticable, putting out of reach the idea of ​​sharing the joys of life.
-Vanity and fragility of human activity: The flowers and fruits which decorate the table dry up and decompose during the duration of the exhibition, evoking in the spirit of the vanities of the 17th century the ephemeral dimension of life.
Childhood: The device places the gaze of visitors on the banquet table at the level of that of a child. The brick construction evokes the hut where the hiding place the underside of the table becomes when the children take refuge there to play