Prelude
2025
Prelude takes the form of approximately twenty flowers illuminated by night lights plugged directly into the building’s infrastructure. Night lights are a recurring motif in Mascini’s practice, offering calm and serenity to better face the night. This concept of an empathetic transitional state between day and night, and more metaphorically between life and death, is central to Mascini’s work. It is reinforced here by the living element of the flowers, which, throughout the exhibition, will mature, wither, and subsequently be replaced by fresh flowers. This installation —marking the entrance of the solo exhibition Le monde est un verbe at Capc in Bordeaux—thus introduces the core research of Mascini’s practice: making tangible the electricity that invisibly shapes our reality and poetically exploring the thoughtful interrelationships between the living world and our technological infrastructures.
2025
Prelude takes the form of approximately twenty flowers illuminated by night lights plugged directly into the building’s infrastructure. Night lights are a recurring motif in Mascini’s practice, offering calm and serenity to better face the night. This concept of an empathetic transitional state between day and night, and more metaphorically between life and death, is central to Mascini’s work. It is reinforced here by the living element of the flowers, which, throughout the exhibition, will mature, wither, and subsequently be replaced by fresh flowers. This installation —marking the entrance of the solo exhibition Le monde est un verbe at Capc in Bordeaux—thus introduces the core research of Mascini’s practice: making tangible the electricity that invisibly shapes our reality and poetically exploring the thoughtful interrelationships between the living world and our technological infrastructures.
flowers (amaryllis, delphinium), glass tubes, water, LED strips, adapter, electrical wires, metal fittings
variable dimensions
image 1-3 installation views at Capc Musée d’art contemporain de Bordeaux, by Arthur Pequin
variable dimensions
image 1-3 installation views at Capc Musée d’art contemporain de Bordeaux, by Arthur Pequin
