SAQQUARAH / LADDER / GALERIE KREO / 2022
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SAQQUARAH is a ladder made of powder-coated steel tube like a traditional bicycle. Its rungs are sheathed by a leather handlebar tape used for racing bikes. However, despite its sporty aesthetic, this ladder was designed for when it is at rest.
Starting from the observation that the majority of its time a ladder is waiting against or suspended from a wall, I chose to give it a form which seems guided by its function, but whose precise use seems uncertain. Is it a ladder, a rescue object, a luggage rack for the roof of an automobile? Like a fake ready-made, this intentional blur apparently decontextualizes the object to reinforce its plastic qualities. It seems to be diverted from its original environment and placed in the domestic space solely for its sculptural value.
Its shape, which without being anthropomorphic seems to be able to contain a human, connects this object with another type of artefact at rest: the Egyptian sarcophagus. One cannot then prevent oneself from seeing in the rhythms of the rungs and the bands of handlebar tape the evocation in filigree of the mummy which it could have contained. This dual evocation of the sporty and the sacred, of the ancient and the contemporary completes the mystery surrounding the provenance of this object.
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Photo : Alexandra de Cossette
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