Restauration du Lac de Montbel is the first live intervention I did (a performance without an invited audience) which took place in the south of France. Year after year the Lake of Montbel is drying out more and more, partly because of the global warming and partly because of the more frequent use by the local fire department helicopters who use the water to extinguish nearby forest fires. At the top of the picture you can see the former waterline. The mayor of Montbel bought the first photo-print.


Restauration du Lac de Montbel, 2003
Centre d'Art Contemporain, Sainte-Colombe sur l'Hers, France
Photoprint 70 x 50 cm
Plaster and plasterknive

photo: Marjolijn Dijkman