PARIS.- Simon Lee Gallery announced Matias Faldbakken and Leander Djonne’s inclusion to FIAC’s renowned outdoor art programme, Hors Les Murs, installed in the Jardin des Tuileries in Paris.

An ensemble of outdoor works, performances, video, film projections and talks will be presented with the FIAC Hors les Murs artistic programme, in the Jardin des Tuileries, the Jardin des Plantes and the National Museum of Natural History, on the banks of the Seine, on the Place Vendôme, the wharf of the Cité de la Mode et du Design, the Louvre Museum and the l’Ecole nationale supérieure des beaux-arts de Paris (ENSBA).

Faldbakken and Djonne present Void to Void, a major new sculptural work consisting of vertically stacked trench boxes. By taking the trench boxes out of their normal context and installing the sculpture in a outdoor above-ground environment, the sculpture, although monumental, almost appears anonymous or semi-camouflaged.

Faldbakken and Djonne comment on the work: “Trench boxes, or manhole boxes, are used to protect workers who work inside trenches. Trenches have a so called stand-up time. This is the time from when a trench is dug, until the trench walls start to cave in. Stand-up time can vary from minutes to months. Trench work, which includes a range of underground jobs like digging down telephone lines, pipes, the foundations of a building, but also archaeological digging, can be very dangerous. The trench boxes are constructed to maintain a given void. Stacking them means in a sense to stack voids. A tower of voids. A column of voids.

The HP Lovecraft quote: 'What has risen may sink and what has sunk may rise.”

The Hors les Murs programme has established itself as an intrinsic aspect of FIAC and - with more than 500,000 visitors during FIAC week.

Void to Void will be on show: 17 - 26 October, 7.30 am - 7.30 pm (daily). FIAC dates: 23 - 26 October