Gas Mask Installation, Paris Museum

5 October 2017 · Paris

Dozens of vintage gas masks packed into a black-framed vitrine, floor to ceiling, shoulder to shoulder — the accumulation is the subject. Each corrugated hose and rubber facepiece reads as an individual object; at this density, they collapse into a single graphic field. The work turns military surplus into assemblage: every unit identical in origin, distinct in wear, and together they carry the combined weight of that contradiction.