Véronique Roger |
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Véronique Roger, France, 1979. She studied landscape architecture at the National High School of Versailles. In her work, she uses clichés pictures, marks of the landscapes construction in process, built natural phenomenons and also by human beings. As an emerging artist, her main site specific works open a space for people in different social situations to exchange knowledge with the local environment. |
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Apart from Roger's work attempts to show the many facets to a specific context. As a connecting thread, she views the present landscape which has been built as the result of not only natural phenomena, but also by humans. In fact, she watches our environment. Roger's goal was to produce a work about the soil, the slow rythm of the seasons and the cycle of the matter in state of decay which having become a consumer good. She used an appetizing form of a piece of cake, firstly, to draw a parallel between the materials of the soil's stratums and the stacked layers of cream and flaky pastry of a vanilla slice and, secondly, to create a tribute for the Pop Art. Further, this cake is reconizable by the layer on top, a decorative icing called “millefeuille” in French (literal English transation, "thousand leaves") reminding us ofthe thousands of dead leaves in the horizontal stratums of the subsoil. Maybe around it, you can guess the edge of the plate which draws a new property line in the natural environment of the park. This sculpture, called "Apart from", talks about the fertile earth slowly built, shared in parts, where urbanization expands. |
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