Art Installation from Recycled COVID-19 Tests by Subset

Reflections on Health in the Post-Epidemic Era

2024-05-04

项目标签

设计公司: :; Subset
位置: :; France
类型: :; Landscape Art
材料: :; Wood Metal Steel
标签: :; Montpellier Blue
分类: :; Public Space installation

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由Subset设计的Les Fleurs de la Maladie 艺术装置荣获法国蒙彼利埃第 17 届有生命建筑节评委会大奖。

Subset proudly introduces its Les Fleurs de la Maladie art installation, winner of the Jury Prize at the 17th Festival des Architectures Vives in Montpellier, France.

▼项目俯视，top view of the project © Paul Kozlowski

在新冠疫情过去三年多之后，我们对健康的重视程度如何？我们的个人经历和记忆与限制接触、甚至夜间宵禁以及频繁检测和监测提供严格行动框架的时代有何不同？

What value do we place on health after more than three years of the COVID-19 pandemic? How different are our personal experiences and memories from the times when contact restrictions, or even nightly curfews, as well as frequent testing and monitoring, provided a strict framework in which to move?

▼近景, closer view of the project © Paul Kozlowski

作为对艺术节主题 “牺牲 “的诠释，Hannah Fuchsenberger，Anne-Fleur Ising，Anne-Fleur Ising，Atidh Jonas Langbein，Gianna Neumann和Helio Philipp Spiess构思了一件装置作品，通过审美和感官体验，引发人们对后疫情时代的个人情感参与。1482 个 COVID-19 检测盒像白色的花朵一样漂浮在蓝色的平台上。Les Fleurs de la Maladie——即疾病之花-——引发我们对自身健康和公共健康的总体思考。

As an interpretation of the festival theme of Sacrality, Hannah Fuchsenberger, Anne-Fleur Ising, Atidh Jonas Langbein, Gianna Neumann, and Helio Philipp Spiess conceived an installation that provokes a personal and emotional engagement with the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic through an aesthetic, sensual experience. Like white flowers, 1,482 COVID-19 test cassettes float above a blue platform. Les Fleurs de la Maladie – Flowers of the Disease – asks what value we attribute to our own and public health in general.

▼如白色的花朵一样漂浮在蓝色的平台, like white flowers floating above the blue platform © Paul Kozlowski

在疫情流行的过去几年中，新冠快速检测已成为人们的常伴，是安全接触、健康和问心无愧的保证。在疫情期间的日常生活中，检测所应提供的安全性与花朵的轻盈和易变形成鲜明对比，花朵随风摇曳或静止不动，取决于天气的变化。尽管 COVID-19 检测的结果可以提供瞬间的确定性，但健康，或者说在这种情况下，现场，始终处于脆弱状态，随时可能因外部因素而失去平衡。健康比以往任何时候都更被定义为我们社会最大的避难所，为了拯救健康，我们的社会停滞不前。

In the last few years of the pandemic, COVID-19 rapid tests have become a constant companion and a guarantee of safe contact, health, and a clear conscience. The security that the tests should provide in everyday life during the pandemic contrasts with the lightness and volatility of flowers, which sway in the wind or stand still, depending on the weather. Although the result of a COVID-19 test can provide momentary certainty, health, or, in this case, the field, is always in a fragile state that can be thrown off balance at any time by external factors. More than ever, health has been defined as the greatest sanctuary of our society, which stood still in order to save it.

▼引发公众对健康的思考, Stimulating public thinking about health © Paul Kozlowski

该装置主要利用Montepellier历史中心一个具有代表性的庭院中的废旧材料建造而成。在魏玛包豪斯大学，12 张Eiermann桌板因磨损严重而被废弃，这些桌板经过人工打磨、重新上漆，并用螺丝固定在庭院的木板条底层结构上。这些试剂盒是由慕尼黑的一所学校捐赠的，该学校曾购买这些试剂盒用于测试学生，但它们在计划使用前就已过期，随后将被处理掉。

The installation was constructed mainly from scrap material in a representative courtyard in Montepellier’s historic centre. Twelve Eiermann table tops, which would have been discarded at the Bauhaus University Weimar due to heavy wear and tear, were manually sanded, repainted, and screwed onto a substructure of wooden slats in the courtyard. They were donated by a school in Munich that had purchased them for testing pupils, but they expired before their planned use and would have been subsequently disposed of.

▼庭院内的装置, installation in the courtyard ©Paul Kozlowski

▼公众对此的观察与思考, Public observations and reflections©Paul Kozlowski

通过重新设计和使用这些材料，装置’Les Fleurs de la Maladie’以环保意识和可持续发展为主题，同时为广泛的诠释开辟了空间，并鼓励观众思考健康在我们社会中的价值。鲜花还邀请参观者分享他们对疫情的个人记忆和经历。

By redesigning and reusing the materials, the installation ‘Les Fleurs de la Maladie’ thematizes environmentally conscious and sustainable approaches in the arts, while opening up this kind of space for wide-ranging interpretations and to encourage viewers to reflect on the value of health in our society. The flowers further invited visitors to share their personal memories and experiences of the pandemic.

▼公众对此的观察与思考, Public observations and reflections©Paul Kozlowski