Protect me dogs, 2024

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Two sculptures, aluminium profiles, cast silicone, electronic circuits, third hands, selfie sticks

130 × 130 × 70 cm (each sculpture)

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Exhibited at Musée Fabre, Montpellier

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Protect Me Dogs looks at how memory is changing in the digital age. What used to be an intimate, sensory experience is now outsourced to devices, images and cloud storage.

 

The creatures in this work draw on mythical guardian figures such as gargoyles and komainu, the guardian lion dogs found at Shinto and Buddhist temples in Japan. These hybrid beings carry universal dualities. Beginning and end. Life and death. They act as collectors and protectors of memory.

 

Their bodies combine sensory organs with pieces of technology. Cameras, lenses, microphones and selfie sticks give physical shape to a memory that has moved outside the body. Together, these organs stand for a synthetic way of experiencing reality and recording memory.

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Project supported by L’Échangeur 22, the Pont du Gard, and MO.CO.