The French pronoun "on" has several meanings. "On" can be synonymous to "we", or to "one".

It can also be used to express the lack of embodied or known subject.

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   In the beginning, I started to draw “on”. Drawing, and playing with the repetitions and the rhythm of this graphic symbol, set something in motion on the paper sheet. A visual entity forms itself, an extensive flow, swarms that carry a reflexion on the idea of multitude. The “on”, as a graphic beat that generates a sort of crowd, becomes a clue in going further et catches a glimpse of a shift from drawing to real space.

To pick up on this proposition: “on” is not reducible to a graphic stroke. As far as language goes, “on” refers to man and opens to all sorts of interpretation. It is a metaphor of humankind or of the undetermined. Behind the masses of drawings of “on”, I perceive some murmur, and decide to suggest people produce something relative to this statement.

   I call for contribution (see tumblr website) and productions from various participants are handed to me, as diverse as they are unexpected. Here begins the wondering of how to present this collection. Once more arises this situation that is specific to drawing: how to assemble, compose, hold together these miscellaneous elements. The passing from drawing to socialising complexified the project.

   I then consider presenting the project in space to give it a visual identity. The scene asserts itself as a figure that unifies and gathers. From this shape, I start undertaking the creation of objects, displays, wood lecterns, that lend themselves to several configurations, to materialise collective speaking. No matter the mode of expression.

   On the pages titled contributions, you will be able to discover texts, drawings, objects, paintings, that were sent to me.

 

Thanks to: Jean-Yves Patte, Eric Harasym, Walther Kindts, Jean Frémiot, Vincent Pons, Jean-Yves Bosseur, Laurent Schmidt, Isabelle Lartault, Marie-Line Van Vuuren, Emmanuel Camusat, Catherine Chenivesse, Thierry Beraud, Flanar, Amandine Facquet, Anita Gomez et Juan Sol, Mr Buisson, Stella Biaggini-Lanoy, Michèle et Jean-Louis Cirès-Brigand.