Perovskia

By TEMPO

In these fragile transparent skulls are played the reflections of places that were built by men and then destroyed by others. They are, among other things, transitory symbols, bearers of a culture, a civilization, of times, a collective memory. This series questions the cultural memory through the notion of memories. « Memory is to man what time is to existence.» The names of the works, with floral consonances, refer on the one hand to the geographical situation of what is represented and on the other hand to the notion of ephemeral, of passing.

In this work, Tempo represents the Buddhas of Bamiyan (Afghanistan), destroyed in February 2001 by the Taliban. These statues were considered heretical by the latter.