The object (365 bottles)

Ordinary, container of fluid material (water). Contains fluidity (liquid material) and suggests stability (plastic form/bottle). A traditional notion of half empty half full.  Mundane and necessary.  Composed of 3 components (water, plastic bottle and cap). Once full, it is in waiting for usage.

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The situation

365 bottles are installed in a perfectly aligned manner in a public space. All caps are removed.

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The process

(Installation - Land art)

The bottles are waiting for nature to actualise their apparent role: Fill them up with rain water. It is a conversation between natural material and artificial object. (man and nature) The identical form of the bottle will allow them to be equally full at every moment despite the randomness of natural effects (rain).

The piece is ephemeral.

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365 bottles waiting for the rain suggests the power of an artistic process in transforming a ready-made object (Duchamp) into a conceptually charged object.

“ this is rain water”

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Other distinctions

This piece is exclusively designed for outside spaces. It acts as an invitation towards natural phenomena and considers them as mobility forces.

Once the bottles are half full with rain water they are spread in town and abandoned in absurd places that make them noticeable hoping that they can transform from a found object to an apparently invisible object of art.

 

Concept, Installation: Xristo Kaouki

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January 2013, Laureate of Récollet International residencies, with the support of Mairie de Paris & Institut francais, as part of Ithaka 24 long duration project.

Ordinary, container of fluid material (water). Contains fluidity (liquid material) and suggests stability (plastic form/bottle). A traditional notion of half empty half full.  Mundane and necessary.  Composed of 3 components (water, plastic bottle and cap). Once full, it is in waiting for usage.

​

The situation

365 bottles are installed in a perfectly aligned manner in a public space. All caps are removed.

The process

(Installation - Land art)

The bottles are waiting for nature to actualise their apparent role: Fill them up with rain water. It is a conversation between natural material and artificial object. (man and nature) The identical form of the bottle will allow them to be equally full at every moment despite the randomness of natural effects (rain).

The piece is ephemeral.

365 bottles waiting for the rain suggests the power of an artistic process in transforming a ready-made object (Duchamp) into a conceptually charged object.

“ this is rain water”

Other distinctions

This piece is exclusively designed for outside spaces. It acts as an invitation towards natural phenomena and considers them as mobility forces.

Once the bottles are half full with rain water they are spread in town and abandoned in absurd places that make them noticeable hoping that they can transform from a found object to an apparently invisible object of art.

 .

Concept, Installation: Xristo Kaouki

.

January 2013, Laureate of Récollet International residencies, with the support of Mairie de Paris & Institut francais, as part of Ithaka 24 long duration project.