Wall

This series of ten unique pieces, with their simple, enigmatic shapes, reveals the salient features of Kenji Ide's universe: a play on scale that challenges our ability to identify things and stimulates our imagination the smaller the piece becomes; a melancholic poetics where the banal and the sublime, the instant and the eternal converge; and a particular relationship with everyday objects (found and not) reminiscent of their treatment by certain Surrealists, such as Joseph Cornell’s assemblages.

But in its maximum process of reduction and abstraction, this series also offers a unique perspective on the artist's practice, revealing its very foundations. Through the title (Wall), and the use of construction materials and processes such as mortar and wooden formwork, Ide indicates his interest in the elementary data of architecture. Indeed, these ten pieces appear as variations on the minimal conditions required for an object, however small, to create a space.