Trackpad, US drone strikes
Jean-Benoit Lallemant
Installation
Trackpad is made of raw linen stretched on a frame. Behind the canvas a mechanism marks the impact points of a remote war : the distortion of the canvas shows U.S. drone strikes in Wasiristan and Yemen.
At times of surgical war, history painting reviews its technique and mode of appearance: no more brush, no image remains on the surface, while behind an event happens fleeting and monstrous – which distorts the two-dimensionality of the picture – and leaves no trace. (Julie Portier).
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Artist
Jean-Benoit Lallemant (FRA)
Born in Melun in 1981, Jean-Benoît Lallemant now lives and works in Paris, after a childhood spent in the Amazonian rainforest in Brazil. By applying cartographic technology and military imaging devices in a critical way, and by striving to rework symbols of power, Jean-Benoît Lallemant’s works put governance strategies under the microscope.
Credits & mentions
Trackpad, US drone strikes, raw canvas, electronic device.
With David Vandenberghe – DnR’Sys, mechatronics engineer
Sources : https://www.newamerica.org/in-depth/americas-counterterrorism-wars/us-targeted-killing-program-yemen/
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