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Emmanuel THARIN

(France, 1957-)

Emmanuel Tharin works in a C.A.T (an Assistance Centre for Work) in Lille. Was it the proximity of a printing works and its dustbins, a magical warehouse of cardboard boxes that triggered his compelling need to follow this path? Emmanuel Tharin meticulously tears up the area that is destined to receive the next device. Every single inch has to be conquered. The front side, the back, the north, the south, the front and the back are all turned upside down. Each piece of cardboard is a living fragment that only makes sense to him while it is being created, but he loses all interest in it once it is finished. The dustbins near his home are really lucky!