Eric Giraudet De Boudemange
Proving ground - Installation - 2011
présentée dans le cadre de l'exposition Panorama 13
Installation
In 1943, the Chemical weapons Corps secretly recruited the German architect Erich Mendelsohn to work with the engineers of the RKO, who had produced Citizen Kane two years earlier.
The best scientific advisors of the allies had strongly recommended the setting up of a programme of incendiary experimentation on exact replicas of workers’ houses. And only the United States - or rather the combined powers of Hollywood and the petrol industry - were able to fulfil this mission in simply a few months.
Eric Giraudet De Boudemange
Production
Le Fresnoy - Studio national des arts contemporains, Tourcoing