Julien Fargetton

  • Sobrevivente

  • 2016-2017, Trafaria, Segundo Torrão, Portugal
  • Found objects
  • Variable dimensions

On the beaches of Lisbon, near the Segundo Torrào wasteland, Julien Fargetton is amazed by the heap of rubbish that has piled up between the driftwood after the storm. Unique shoes, of course, caught his eye. He uses cans of detergent to make calves, then wood to assemble the legs, topping them off with a trogne. These strange, tragi-comic figures might remind us of Alberto Giacometti's famous Leg, which Dalí would have topped with a coconut...

Philippe Saulle, Sète 2024