Représentation des précipitations de pluie pour la ville de Marrakech depuis le début de la collecte de cette donnée. Chaque colonne représente une année et est faite de 12 cylindres de bois. Le diamètre de chaque cylindre correspond aux précipitations pour le mois donnée. Les cylindres peints en blanc sont les mois avec zéro précipitation.
Conçu et produit dans le cadre d'un résidence au 18
Images par Salah Bouade (avec public) et Salaheddine Elbouaaichi (sans)
Merci à Laila Hida, Oumaima Abaraghe, Othmane Ouallal, Meryem Fekhari, Tamo, et Amine Lahrach.
While extreme weather phenomena increasing, becoming evermore spectacular, and terrifying, a major obstacle to bringing collective answers to those events is that they become graspable only once they reach a high destructive power and cause suffering.
It remains quite abstract to embrace and engage with the deterioration of the environment as a whole as it is made of a complex network of intertwined agents, factors and moments which, individually, are often not impressive. The dramatic changes lay in a chaining of infinitesimal variations.
With his research, Pierre Coric makes known data ever slightly more graspable. The sum of all precipitation since recorded times (1959) in the city of Marrakesh. The city’s collective water mountain floating above her streets and fluctuating through some of these very same variations. By giving this data a shape, a physicality and a weight, it becomes an object that we can look at, hold in our hands and around which we can stand to start a collective reflection. The size and material chosen for this piece aim at making it a support to start collecting the result of this reflection, other data, still scattered and uncollected.
«Each of us has a mountain weighing above their head and a pit laying under their feetAs a finite amount of particles, we spend our lives right in between, depending on both, connecting them upwards and downwards. It is part of us, although we sometimes use the word “resource”,It travels,It goes from one body to another,From clouds and mountain tops, it spins, turns and sinks into the ground, As if it was making the grass happy to grow. »
Representation of the rain precipitation in the city of Marrakesh sinds recorded times. Each column accounts for one year and is made out of 12 wooden cylinder. The diameter of each cylinder amounts for the rainfall of the corresponding month. The cylinders painted white are the months with zero precipitation.
Made during a residency at Le 18.
Pictures by Salah Bouade (with audience) and Salaheddine Elbouaaichi (without)
Many thanks to Laila Hida, Oumaima Abaraghe, Othmane Ouallal, Meryem Fekhari, Tamo, and Amine Lahrach.