Tipping point
Mural composed of 16 PVC panels
Graphic composition of opaque and translucent adhesive shapes
9 panels measuring 51 x 230 cm, 7 panels measuring 149 x 230 cm
This monumental mural by artist Awena Cozannet was commissioned by the RAJA Collection for the new facilities dedicated to the RAJA SPORT association at the Group’s headquarters. Adjacent to the rooms where bodies move and draw, the work Tipping Point recalls the artist’s visual and symbolic research, in which the body, its movements, and its representations play a central role. On the sixteen panels of Tipping Point, each viewer is invited to contemplate silhouettes that walk, carry, fall, climb… both physically and allegorically. With its bright colors and adhesive shapes laser-cut and meticulously applied to PVC panels, our perception changes as the work crystallizes multiple narratives. Evoking a tipping point and the chaos of our contemporary society, the work is also a call to move forward, to keep walking, and to plant the seeds of a new world.
« A whole world sets off on a journey. Over the course of a trip, Tipping Point tells the story of a turning point. Two huge figures face each other, serious and playful, upside down. As they fall, they reach out to each other without touching, their hands outstretched, one completely green, the other completely red. Further away, another figure walks, crossing from night into day. He carries an empty cage-shaped bag on his back, or is he carrying a vacant space? A perspective? A peddler, the man walks from dawn to dawn. The fresco can be viewed from either side. The reading can be reversed, or the order of the panels, since the aim is to question human life or a dream of the world. Moving from one time to another, turning the sky upside down, the images are derived from mental images, original stories, and symbolic representations. Questioning the links between men, denouncing violence and impunity, mourning blind new beginnings and darkness. On the last panels, does another world emerge, or a new generation? A small hand approaches, open. Inviting us to follow it?» (artist’s quote)
