LAZY GODS AND LAZY FATE
Lazy Deities and Lazy Fate—developed with the support of Yannick Vernet and the Musée départemental Arles antique—explores the Alyscamps necropolis as a paradigm of the tension between life and death. Through images and sound, the work seeks to transform archaeological relics into autonomous, living entities, engaging them in dialogue with humans, environments, and other species.
The necropolis, long reduced to a space of death, now appears as a threshold: a liminal zone where memory and oblivion, sacredness and abandonment, coexist. Swallowed by an ever-expanding urban fabric, its sacred and social values seem erased—yet paradoxically, this very marginality grants it renewed vitality. Like Calvino’s Invisible Cities or Pasolini’s Teorema, the Alyscamps reflects how the sacred often emerges in the periphery, challenging modernity’s logic of growth and utility.
The project reactivates this space within the museum, confronting a dichotomy: between the lost sacredness of ritual sites and the modern impulse to preserve by isolating and sealing them. In doing so, it points to a broader crisis of values, where memory and shared spaces are eroded by relentless expansion.
Methodologically, the work combines documentation of necropolises, both within and beyond the city, with archival research, constructing a layered corpus of sonic, visual, and textual materials. The final form is a polyphonic installation: relics supported by skeletal metal arms, images dissolving into cycles rather than fixed moments, and sound compositions creating a ritual rhythm of repetition and return. Alongside it, a book serves as a quieter architecture, preserving the project’s complexity across pages.
Lazy Deities and Lazy Fate proposes the necropolis as a mirror of contemporary fractures: a suspended frontier where life and death, past and future, coexist. It seeks not resolution, but a space where memory, wound, and sacredness persist—fragile, fractured, and yet still alive.
The necropolis, long reduced to a space of death, now appears as a threshold: a liminal zone where memory and oblivion, sacredness and abandonment, coexist. Swallowed by an ever-expanding urban fabric, its sacred and social values seem erased—yet paradoxically, this very marginality grants it renewed vitality. Like Calvino’s Invisible Cities or Pasolini’s Teorema, the Alyscamps reflects how the sacred often emerges in the periphery, challenging modernity’s logic of growth and utility.
The project reactivates this space within the museum, confronting a dichotomy: between the lost sacredness of ritual sites and the modern impulse to preserve by isolating and sealing them. In doing so, it points to a broader crisis of values, where memory and shared spaces are eroded by relentless expansion.
Methodologically, the work combines documentation of necropolises, both within and beyond the city, with archival research, constructing a layered corpus of sonic, visual, and textual materials. The final form is a polyphonic installation: relics supported by skeletal metal arms, images dissolving into cycles rather than fixed moments, and sound compositions creating a ritual rhythm of repetition and return. Alongside it, a book serves as a quieter architecture, preserving the project’s complexity across pages.
Lazy Deities and Lazy Fate proposes the necropolis as a mirror of contemporary fractures: a suspended frontier where life and death, past and future, coexist. It seeks not resolution, but a space where memory, wound, and sacredness persist—fragile, fractured, and yet still alive.
176 pages
21x31cm
coptic binded
21x31cm
coptic binded
