THE UNIVERSAL ADDRESS
In the era of exponential proliferation of information, artificial and illusory verbal exchanges, this container, designed to traverse space and time, embodies absolute messaging. It represents the concept of an address that transcends borders, applicable on a universal scale. This tool, whose magic will be directly proportional to that of its user, provides a potential means for each individual to express what is most intimate but also most fundamental: their Echo.
"The Universal Address"
Reinforced steel.
H 107 cm x L 110 cm x D 110 cm.
2023
THE UNIVERSAL ADDRESS
A universal address inclines the being towards the infinite, placing it in perfect humility, in the total possibility of honoring its unity.
Facing an inaccessible volume and abandoning desire to it is a constant in our presence. Every thought, every sensation, every gesture is an exchange with immensity. This is the minimum that inspired me about this reinforced steel box of one cubic meter.
Indestructible, khaki, crowned with four loops intended for air transport, it was destined to be tossed, loaded with any precious survival items. This military crate allowed me to imagine what survivors could post there if God were to come looking for it. It would become an address of the Universe, a black hole for our sparks.
Immobile as an archaic satellite, this imposing mailbox appears as the epitome of messaging. It evokes new paradigms of verbal exchanges and denounces a theory of the physical acceleration of information. This box questions the « postal » revolution of humanity.
Between individuals and societies, words travel and trace desires. But in this pursuit game, what word prevails for each if not a fundamental wish under the order of hope? Desire and action, we exist conditioned by reality, in our gaze, it makes us vulnerable, and we imagine it limitless. Hope is nothing but our fragile and infinite anticipation.
In this sense, a messaging system to the Whole is an incision into reality towards the limits of the imaginable. It expresses our fragility. Not the fragility born of lack or excess, but our inexorable and omnipresent fragility. Fragility with the potential for alteration, that of the twilight of the present and the dawn of metamorphosis. This state open to possibility, to the breaths of chance, and the millennial forces.
This container of universal messages is designed to travel, capture the energy of places, observe the human soul, and gather relative gifts. Each, facing the essential, posts a vast or ephemeral message, slips a note of some words as a revealing sign. Everyone, without distinction, is invited to express themselves.
Some will see it as a mirror, a tool to identify something invisible. Some will see it as a religious sense where the proximity of souls is revealed. Others, the tuning fork of weights and pollutions in the face of the prospects of the imaginary. Perhaps this box is just a small temple to oneself, to humans, and to life. But veneration is absent; here, nothing is to be feared, no cult, just an osmosis.
In the name of artistic approach, it will be seen as a human reflex that betrays the unconscious through magical wishes. A contemporary version of the spiritual act to escape the shadows of reality, like emerging from the underground world to illuminate its vitality. This wish box works on the same relationship of unconscious impression and subconscious expression. In short, the depths illuminated by the sudden.
The Universal Messaging is a potential means for each to express what is most intimate but also most fundamental: its Echo.