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with my parents one day we had fun
to count the number of moves
37-37 move 37 change of
House
so you all know pretty much what
that it’s a move you
have at least done one is stressful we
loses a lot of things a lot
of objects then 37
I stopped to attach myself to
things at home objects but at the
reverse
I started to attach a lot
to people because finally during
these moves I had
realized that what was diminishing was
the number of objects but cons
were adding living beings
around me every new house
were new encounters
for example at nevers where I lived
maybe twice and I did
absolutely no memory
but I remember very well the
who was in charge of the haberdashery
street of mountains type 1 we spent
a lot of time to discuss I
listened to him then I do like that
a kind of game connects people I’m
connects to people I create myself my own
roots a personal intranet a little bit
it gives me I think a stability
personal that can be with the
removals may not have been
very clear then that it has me sat a
created my roots and a little later
in my work I started to
build on his roots and raise
my statutes my standing sculptures like
we balance like us with our
doubts our difficulties but with
beautiful foundation and me somewhere
but foundation is you then this
link a little with people near and far
of me certainly develop a
empathy a bit excessive but at the same time
reverse
it also gave me a deep
intolerance for conflict for everything
what divides us all that we
separates who destroys us
so it became the object of my
work in my studio
I studied conflict and what
I was interested to understand
in conflicts and when the
things flip how is it going
between beings between peoples
when things go from
your side and in this study my
purpose was to find tools for
weapons to stand up because
at one point we fall all because
that they are doing nothing that may be falling
not fascinating but we fell all the
the whole challenge all that gives us
the strength and how one gets up
what tools are we going to
help to stay upright or help
next person who fell to himself
pick up then I worked on
many of these themes
so I created sculptures on all
these themes there and especially on
these tools there is one that holds me
a lot to heart and who has been
very useful
there is not a long time is the
courage and that’s why I
worked on on the courage that has
some time has preserved us from
barbarism and I created a sculpture
I present you the braves
they are on the landing beach
omaha beach for those who know
maybe to saint laurent on sea and
I wanted them standing planted but in
the conditions for recalling this is the
what was
the time at the time of disembarkation
so that’s a it’s a challenge there was
a lot of technical problems
obviously a lot of constraints
serious to be able to put this
sculpture on the beach and the list has
been d impossible you know the one
give you all the time at each
time you want to do something on
you said but no, but you can not
so I heard a lot of it
heard finally you can not think
not a
there is water on the beach ah yes
and that’s for sure and then no but
but how do you begin to hold you
well I do not know I’m going to ask them and
then there is no wind with some
luck
then no you have to actually
all the meetings you need
for things to work and and
then there was a lot of people
warned about the authorizations because
that actually to put 20 tons
on a beach on the French coast
and 50 tons below especially on a
beach as mythical as bitche
it was a bit
complicated and me there the only
authorization that interested me it was
that of veterans
because really there is she so I
asked them the question very
just by starting this project I
say that for you that shocks you
because it was not my goal or
Are you sensitive to this
approach on courage and they have
been enthusiastic who followed him
in this beautiful adventure and that it has
been the strength for me to continue
because that’s good for the rest
it was problems with
solutions
then after I saw you a lot
of disasters continue to
accelerate and send us
incredible images on the planet we have
all saw the towers falling we have we all
saw fukushima and that it was to the list
is very long, you know her
like me but she did grow
obviously and we all felt this
scared a diffuse thing set that starts
to hug a little everyone to
four corners of the planet who we who
puts us away from each other
but at the same time
there was not there was not that
that I looked at something else too
it is fraternity
there was during all these moments
terrible an extraordinary fraternity
I was amazed to see how
we all went down we were all
Puerto Rican recently we’ve all been
Charlie we are we with maybe
courage also we are all been we are
all went on the street
together we held hands with
adversity and that was still
quite extraordinary
so I said to myself but here we
was able to meet like that
all together but not around death
around life if we could all get
bring together connect to create for
innovate to build and to do
things that look like this
impossible but who gives us
a lot of hope so that’s
the whole soul of the speed project which I
I’ll speak to you here I am I
I said that we had to create a
sculpture it became my a bit like
an intuition a bit like an emergency
create this a work that we
would all gather a little bit like at
first day of humanity is frozen
symbolize with 1 million fingerprints
hands of all of us at the four corners
of the planet and you remember that
the first of the first humans on
this planet have wanted to leave
their traces on the caves of lascaux
here are two then at the modern ten asco
years a work we would all
participants and who would settle
and with which we would all stay
connected
so I searched a long time for a place
because as for the brave ones he
had to find a place that is
universal since it was the idea
it is that we are all together in
this culture that we make beautiful trip
together then we had to find a
place and it needed a universal place that
because they speak to everyone
so to the four corners of the world at all
the all religions all the
cultures all generations
it was not easy but I
told me that we also had to find a
place that speaks to our emotions because
that to do a little this counterpoint is
fight against all those fears that
wants to inflict on us we want us
we anchor and we needed something
which is magical enough to have
want to go there we want those
to participate together I have
finally met this place and I play
I let you discover it
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you see dream big so that’s it
it’s the dream that I’m trying
to realize and I had a finally
it’s I’ll have the summary installed
on the moon a living sculpture
since she’s called vita she talks about
we are talking about life that would be a
cocoon closed day and night
would open up to let humanity stand
deploy and all his footprints
hands talk to us and it takes and stays
connected with this sculpture as a
small bright spot from time to time
to not disturb anything but
could make it pulse to stay
connected with it then in general
when I make a sculpture and that I
am at the pommel here at this point
I’m going there and yes and I’m going
see a little moods what can
have an impact on the sculpture
to finish it there was a little
complicated and but not impossible
so always finally in my
workshop
I welcomed extraordinary people
who came to tell me the moon for
that I understand it when I
same thousand questions and there has been a
series of very benevolent people astro
physicists space engineers then
the first space engineer who
came when they came in my
workshop so you see the brave one
workshop with me anyway
work the metals so a lot of
big machineries and and there I him
tells my project and so he tells me
very very nice project neither when
very well but you understand
you are in tons and we are in g
so here it is necessary to change I have
understood that it was necessary to change
so it’s exciting because it’s
another world that opens all of a
it’s necessary
impossibility
it’s an opening it’s
how are we going to find the solutions and
we will learn a lot of things then
I learned that the day on the moon there
does it do 150 degrees and then night
– 120 we can go up to minus 120
so that’s a bit of amplitude
huge
and then then there is good news
I do not need foundations
that’s good because under bravia
50 tons and micropiles but here I
pose vita and whose break they remain
so that was really good
thing
and then we have a lot
worked there was another person
very important it was jean audouze
who gave me another sentence like
that there were key moments in all
projects like that there are moments
important bearings and jean audouze 8
me is an extraordinary astrophysicist
very well known very competent and who is
so the same in my workshop I him
told and in the end he told me but
you want to put it exactly where on
the moon the sculpture then there it is
wonderful because I hear
so it’s possible because if the
only question from those of this director
from the institute of astrophysics in paris
it’s just knowing where and what
it may have been a small concern
but not how is it all theirs
good there will be 1 there are great moments
of loneliness of course in all this we
is we
there are bearings you know them
may be imposed in projects
like that a moment when everything stops
here we are not moving forward and then there is
moments when people see to the
up and then you’re back up to jump
three steps and everything becomes possible
it’s wonderful to take advantage of
these moments because it’s energy
which makes these advanced projects
the enthusiast must have it
to share they must be distributed
use it to mount it’s a
true a real real engine then some
engineers I worked with them
for over four years and we have
found solutions to every thing
the opening which is made only of
organic way without mechanism
simply with the heat of the sun and
and she will be visible so I went
at the cern who had the hand that made me
the honor of inviting me to launch the
project so we threw it out there the
first impressions of
were launched in Geneva in this
wonderful one of the most prestigious
scientific laboratories in the world and
today is well the trip this
artistic and scientific odyssey of
several steps so we left in
vita stratosphere was sent to
more than 50 kilometers of altitude it is
what’s called age of space the
edge of the space where we see the curvature
of the earth
and so that’s it’s not 3d
she’s really there, it’s a
photo that was taken from above
and after that there was another
very important step it was the
test in microgravity so I
work with them I worked with
the nasa of an anorak is for you
to test the sculpture in the station
international space station iss
and you see last February 19th
you imagine me at cap canaveral
nasa sp6 guests for those who
knew the musk to attend the
launch of spe 6,17 what this
rocket that took with it the vita
and in the middle of the experiments and she has
been tested up there successfully by
by thomas pesquet here it is he who
holds the sculpture in his hand and that he
managed to open it and
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so that’s what I want to tell you
it is that what is said impossible
it’s just a difficulty
to find a solution
and this solution
we find this light it comes
sparks that that turns on when
we connect when when we
we add up all our talents and
our enthusiasms
so I think the impossible is
a word that has only the weight
we want to give him
so do me a favor in him
gave none because like that you
can be light enough to do the
journey with less to the moon
thank you
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