'Un autoportrait à la chaussette trouée' 2022 In 2022, Nicolas Bourthoumieux is invited to conceive a project for the residency and events of Radicales 1924. Saint-Cirq Lapopie is a dead village by virtue of being preserved; it is the opposite o

'Un autoportrait à la chaussette trouée' 2022

In 2022, Nicolas Bourthoumieux is invited to conceive a project for the residency and events of Radicales 1924. Saint-Cirq Lapopie is a dead village by virtue of being preserved; it is the opposite of a ruin. Despite the death of the main subject of his research project, Michael Collins, this invitation to join Radicale 1924 is once again relevant: "Try again. Fail again. Fail better," said Samuel Beckett.

For the public event in 2022, the idea is to resume these explorations by starting with what should have been the end: the burial of the foot casting. Not Collins', but Bourthoumieux's. A self-portrait with a holey sock. The end becomes the seed.

For the public event in 2022, the idea is to resume these explorations by starting with what should have been the end: the burial of the foot casting. Not Collins', but Bourthoumieux's.

A self-portrait with a holey sock. The end becomes the seed. It is a cycle driven by failure. From what was supposed to be a culmination emerges a new exploration that will develop during the residency until 2024.

The sculpture will be underground, patiently waiting to be found. Like a fossilized dinosaur egg. Like in Pompeii. And maybe we will forget to unearth it.

'Untitled' 2023 This sculpture stands adjacent to the former work of Nicolas Bourthoumieux titled 'Un autoportrait à la chaussette trouée' . A sculpture crafted from a crystal found in one of the caves within the vicinity of Saint Cirq Lapopie. I

'Untitled' 2023

This sculpture stands adjacent to the former work of Nicolas Bourthoumieux titled 'Un autoportrait à la chaussette trouée' . A sculpture crafted from a crystal found in one of the caves within the vicinity of Saint Cirq Lapopie. It was presented during 'Parade, the public event' August 2023, Saint-Cirq-Lapopie

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'Un autoportrait à la chaussette trouée' 2022 In 2022, Nicolas Bourthoumieux is invited to conceive a project for the residency and events of Radicales 1924. Saint-Cirq Lapopie is a dead village by virtue of being preserved; it is the opposite o
For the public event in 2022, the idea is to resume these explorations by starting with what should have been the end: the burial of the foot casting. Not Collins', but Bourthoumieux's. A self-portrait with a holey sock. The end becomes the seed.
'Untitled' 2023 This sculpture stands adjacent to the former work of Nicolas Bourthoumieux titled 'Un autoportrait à la chaussette trouée' . A sculpture crafted from a crystal found in one of the caves within the vicinity of Saint Cirq Lapopie. I