Merci.

sculpture, found envelop and pocket money, 2021

Merci. (Thank you.) consists of pocket money given to the artist by his father in the early 2000s. Mysteriously unspent, it was forgotten over the years before being found at the back of a desk drawer in the artist’s childhood bedroom.
On the front of the envelope, in fluorescent blue writing, the artist’s father asks that the envelope be given to his son on a specific date, in a surprisingly formal injunction. The last word, “Thank you.” becomes the title of the work itself, with the artist seeming to delicately return the polite expression to his family or to the viewers.
By evoking notions of transmission, long temporalities, and childhood memories, this intimate ready-made crystallizes many concepts dear to the artist.