2000
Installation
Contemporary Art Center Albert Chanot, Clamart, France.

Freezer, ice, silver gelatine, fluorescent light.
170 x 70 x 90.

This installation was made for the exhibition Corps Sensations at the Contemporary Art Center Albert Chanot in Clamart (suburb of Paris), during June & July. It was the first Bank for the Cryogenic memories, made with a large & horizontal freezer with a glass door that people were able to open to touch the Iceblocks and feel the cold & the ice.
There was several iceblocks, put in order in the freezer. Three of them contained a cryogenic photograph made as usually. The rest were empty iceblocks, as box, waiting for the memories that people want to keep and freeze, and also as a kind of icepaper, very thin, to cover and close the box. The installation contained fluorescent lights on the bottom of the freezer, behind the ice.

It's the beginning of allowing a place for memories to be kept in the Universal Perishable Bank. I can propose a frozen area at any time. People put so many things in the Bank, to conserve, to protect them, and they want to conserve themselves as well, more and more. They want to conserve their double, their image, even their own DNA to create their double.
This bank is possible as far as you pay for it, as far as we produce the energy for it, as far as the system of these society will continue. Photography was the first steps of cloning, making your double in pictures.

There's no need of Bank if there's no protectiv and conservation thought. People have already thought about freezing their body after death for an illusion of a new life.
The pictures are frozen but finally you don't have any access to it. They are kept but hiden at the same time, then useless. if you want to get it back, you might open the Bank and then offer it to the destructiv light and time.
release to dissapear.