Reworked archival photograph, vintage brown wooden frame with anti-reflective glass, silver fork

23x30 cm (+ Fork = 3x21,5 cm)

27,5x34,5 cm (Framed)

With fork: 1,970 € (unique piece)
Without fork: 1,200 € (edition of 10)

This work is based on an archival portrait of an ancestor of the artist, which is altered through a process of visual decomposition concentrated around the eye area. The ancestor played a prominent role in the French colonization of Vietnam and in the industrial exploitation of natural resources, particularly through the cultivation of Hevea brasiliensis and the extraction of liquid latex for rubber production.

In this image, the notion of Extraction resonates through multiple registers: industrial removal of resources, familial lineage, and the act of drawing something out. It connects botanical memory, inherited histories, and the environmental consequences of extractive systems. The portrait becomes a fragment in which these layers intersect, suspended between transformation and residue, where extracted matter and memory form a stratified surface of history.