Camille Bondon
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A procession of individuals of all ages joyfully manifests their dreams. During six months, Camille Bondon opened clubs of pleasure, in a school, a college, an art center,... People of all ages came there to state their desires. This list of wishes seemed to him to constitute the program of a utopian and just future. Who says program, says demonstration and all the rest. So they drew typographies, constituted a reserve of patterns and picked up some recycled and second choice fabrics to compose their banners. Today there are 27 of them. Tomorrow there will probably be more. The future is great and there is room for everybody. Now we take them, we lend them to each other and we demonstrate happily with them. We take pleasure in making our desires known. First step towards a world in our image.
THE WORDS FROM ANNESOPHIE BÉRARD, OUR CURATOR :
Smile, Consider, Share
Born in 1987, the Franco-Swiss artist Camille Bondon sets up collective experiences that give pride of place to joys and desires, as suggested by her Department of Pleasure plaque. In the same way, the days of pleasure (of which the work 65 jours de plaisirs is an account) are invitations to share with the artist, and by text message, three pleasures encountered each hour, during one day. The Sweet Words are the result of another protocol, proposing to spread 10,000 sweet words in a given area. The reams on sale allow the visitor to become, in turn, an actor of the work.
There is a touching dimension in this tiny, conscientious and collective search to collect these little things that give a pleasant taste to our present. Exchanged and shared, pleasure moves away from its individual dimension to take on its function as a social link: it then fulfills the essential role of driving force for all our future commitments.
The Caring Gallery is committed to donating 10% of the sale of this work to the partner association of the exhibition.
