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For L.F.D.A. 02.Maison Sommaire#1 (“Makeshift house no. 1”) is part of an ensemble of two works of the same name created by Guillaume Leblon in 2008 for an exhibition at the Domaine de Kerguéhennec. Made from oiled, black medium-density fibreboard, the structure covers two levels. Too big to be considered an architect’s model, it functions as a simplified work of microarchitecture. Ten geometric wooden objects lie on both levels of the Makeshift House, more or less visible to the viewer, their forms all evoking the general category of infrastructure (roads section, sub-section underground conduits and piping). Guillaume Leblon’s work is a design projected in space, a support structure for an unfinished building. It functions as a device capable of absorbing the visitor, plunging us into an uncertain, strange environment, introducing us into a kind of metaphysical picture. Maison Sommaire#1 resembles a structure made specially for us, but which observes us at a distance. It is a makeshift structure, taking the form of a house only, and with nothing of its function. Guillaume LeblonGuillaume Leblon creates falsely domestic environments from fragments of décor or architecture that he diverts from their original function. Putting into question the idea of a home as an intimate and comforting place, and the symbolic transgression of the fixed and artificial space set aside for the exhibition and, more generally, the frontier separating inside from outside in any structure, are among the favourite themes of this craftsman of illusion.[V. Th.] Guillaume Leblon was born in 1971 in Lille.
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