Concordia Album at Madlab Residency
During my residency with the MadLab on the Étang de Thau, near Marseillan in France, I installed Concordia Album,
an installation I first created in 2014. Concordia Album was an attempt to present the Concordia shipwreck disaster
with an installation using my works on porcelain. Each piece interpreted press photos of the disaster to tell the story from
a new angle.
The original presentation was on a table in a low light room, so it was an opportunity to present the pieces submerged in the salt water of the Etang de Thau. This offered a fresh and pertinent perspective on the original installation and obviously brought the story closer to home – the sea.
Images:
01 – Concordia Album porcelains on the jetty at Madlab
02 – Concordia Album submerged in daylight
03 – Concordia Album submerged at night
04 – Concordia Album submerged in daylight
05 – Satellite photo of Concordia disaster
06 – Phossil 43 (concordia album16 – 2014) – 22cm x 16cm x 0.4cm approx.- hand-painted with pigment on porcelain, fired twice up to 1300ºc
07 – Phossil 43 (concordia album03 – 2014) – 10cm x 8cm x 0.3cm approx.- hand-painted with pigment on porcelain, fired twice up to 1300ºc
08 – Text presenting Concordia in french
09 – Text presenting Concordia in english
10 – Original installation – Hors Circuit Exhibition – Montpellier 2014








