Ensemble nous vaincrons le futur [Together, we will beat the future]
Ensemble nous vaincrons le futur is an immersive installation that takes viewers down a meandering path. Adopting the form of a rope course, the work is composed of wood plinths and furniture such as climbing structures, ropes, and plaster sculptures made from castings of garbage, food scraps, and found objects.
Designed to be presented in an outdoor wooded area, Loranger built an in situ installation that seeks to surprise and arouse the curiosity of viewers as they discover an environment that is part rope course, part contemporary art exhibition, part English garden, and part contaminated natural site.
Ensemble nous vaincrons le futur is about overconsumption, programmed obsolescence, waste, and congestion. Jacinthe Lorange has long re-examined our relationship to objects, which are usually drowned in the visual noise of everyday landscapes. Concerned with what she considers to be a form of object alienation, she works to disrupt our perception of objects by removing them from their usual, unremarkable reality and staging them in imaginative worlds.
Ensemble nous vaincrons le futur seeks to revive the tradition of the still life through familiar objects, some of which are from her studio. By using casting techniques, Loranger is particularly interested in the paradoxical potential of creating unique objects from a process that normally produces exact replicas, and how this reflects our troubled relationship with objects. The fragility of some plaster pieces, which are exposed to the elements or accidents, adds an ephemeral dimension to the work and activates it as a memento mori while the viewer experiences it not in a gallery space, but in the very different context of real life.
