Started at the turn of the 2000s, the Shoes series is at the heart of Cyril Hatt’s artistic practice who describes it as follows:

I take pictures of objects in automatic mode sometimes using a simple phone. I also don’t try to compose around the subject. I’m just doing a simple scan of reality.

My second practice, that of sculpture, also remains elementary. I staple end to end the images as they come to build an approximate volume. It is a technique that could be similar to art brut. My practice is anchored in doing, the repetition of the gesture, the instantaneity. The resulting works are the result of a series of sometimes risky actions and a precarious plastic assembly.

I play with the image as an envelope. The objects I select are chosen for their image. They are emptied of their substance and exist only in appearance. They are, so to speak, ghosts.

These Shoes are reproducible at will by the artist, just as these objects are multiplied by the consumer society, hence the absence of date in the legends and other references to his everyday works.

Shoes series, general legend: 30 10/15 prints, adhesive, staples – 25 x 30 x 30 cm