Didier Fiúza Faustino
Text by Pelin Tan
Design
Julie & Gilles
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“Vortex Populi” is a visual essai centered around five of Didier Fiúza Faustino’s creations. These projects question the notion of public space by using French Vauvan barriers as its core element. These railguards become, in Faustino’s world, an object-prototype for popular struggles.
This research begun in 2013 with Memories of Tomorrow, an installation made for the Jardin des Tuileries in Paris. Two years later, Fiúza Faustino goes back to this object usually made to regulate crowds and creates Vortex Populi, a whirlwind of Vauban barriers for “Le Magasin”, the National centre for contemporary art in Grenoble, France.