La fascination de la faille

The works of this multimedia artist track the memories and the traces of the traumas experienced by his country. Using photography and film, he also addresses the more universal themes of memory and its transmission. In residence at MAC VAL, Aveta made a monumental work that was placed at the heart of Persona grata?, a hanging of the permanent collection which explored the question of hospitality.This installation features a big wooden bridge that has collapsed at its centre, summing up the paradox and fragile equilibrium of this construction.
The bridge is a connection between two geographies, two peoples and two cultures, or two beings. Symbolically, it marks both a link and a break between one being and another. The bridge abolishes frontiers, uniting and separating at the same time.
Aveta is fascinated by material and by fault lines. His work evokes struggling forces, uncertainties, risks, failures, but also dreams and hopes that are fragile and shaken yet still standing.A veritable visual and aural environment, the installation is completed by a video and photographs that the artists based on interviews with the inhabitants he met in the neighbourhood of the museum, about each person’s personal relationship to the memory of a bridge. He thus explores memory as testimony, as historical construction, as a personal and collective process.
“The bridge has ceased to be a bridge and has become a work of art. From an aesthetic point of view, this is about the fascination with fault lines, with their morphology and topology, their unexpected destiny, their arrival and reception in the museum. From the point of view of function, it is about the failure of the bridge, its end, its ruin, and its tragedy, but not the loss of its vocation to unite, to communicate.”