Ostraca
by Chemsedine Herriche
- Printed in France
* UNE RÉDUCTION DE 15% s'applique aux communes de moins de 5 000 habitants.Contactez-nous pour bénéficier de cette remise.
* POUR TOUTES LES COMMUNES, une réduction de 10% s'applique automatiquement à partir de 3 expositions commandées.
Exhibition available in 2 formats for outdoor use and 1 format for indoor use.
In ancient Greece, ostracism was a vote by which the assembly of citizens pronounced the banishment of one of its own. It was a simple measure of political removal, a vote of no confidence in an influential citizen suspected of aspiring to personal power. His name was inscribed on a pottery shard known as an ostrakon.
As the writing faded, the banishment ended.
Ostraca is this wall that isolated us from the city, from the community, from ourselves...
During the first lockdown, in order to keep track of these moments when the whole world was in slow motion and uncertain, Chemsedine Herriche asked members of his digital community to send him photos of the skies seen from their windows or of the light in their homes.
…then the wall broke, the artifacts remained, etching the snapshot, the fleeting possibility of elsewhere, a narrow window on the world.
• Outdoors: choose locations where people take a walk and/or where there is a lot of foot traffic: in the centre of the town, near a school, in a public garden or along a walking trail... And if possible, on flat ground!
• Indoors: reception hall, office, waiting room, dining room, meeting room - choose the best-lit space.
CAUTION: If the space where you are displaying the exhibition is slightly damp, we recommend purchasing eight simple frames of the same size (50 x 70 cm) to protect the prints.
The papers we have chosen for printing our exhibitions meet two essential criteria, among others: beautiful colour rendering and durability.
• Exhibitions intended for outdoor display are printed on high-quality 130gsm blue-backed paper.
• For exhibitions intended for indoor display, we have chosen a 550gsm semi-rigid paper to which we attach a simple hanging system. These panels can therefore be hung on a single nail or framed if they are to be displayed in a slightly damp location.
For outdoor displays, our poster formats have been chosen to best suit “election” billboards:
• Large outdoor format (84 x 119 cm) for maximum impact. With one poster per billboard, you will need eight in total.
• Small outdoor format (63 x 93 cm) so that two posters can be placed on the same billboard... meaning you only need to install four billboards.
• Indoor exhibition (50 x 70 cm): 8 prints to hang on 5 linear metres of free wall space.
Full view of the exhibition
Chemsedine Herriche
Chemsedine Herriche is a French visual artist born in 1988.
This digital native first expressed himself through drawing before training at ENSCI-les ateliers (École Nationale Supérieure de Création Industrielle), combining industrial aesthetics, sculpture, video and scenography.
