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In 1985, François Morelli embarked on his Transatlantic Walk, commemorating the frothieth anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima. Carrying a hallow fiberglass sculpture in the shape of a charred human torso on his back. Morelli traveled from Berlin to Cologne to Amsterdam to Paris to New York to Philadelphia, and documented his pilgrimage with photographs, elaborate notebooks sketches, and diaristic writings.
He often stopped to breathe air into figure (which was equipped with plastic tubes) or to fill it with water from public fountains, takes, and rivers. These gestures served to provide symbolic sustenance, as if he were keeping his companion alive. Many of Morelli’s project have put him in the role of self-appointed “carrier” who takes on the burden of, or bears witness to, historical or social ills, and who discusses these issues with the people he encounters.
Transatlantic Walk put him in constant contact with curious commuters, perturbed passerby, and skeptical border guards. When presenting this project in a gallery setting, Morelli hangs the sculpture at torso height, allowing viewers to imagine themselves carrying it. Sequences of slides transferred to video and his journal of drawings complete the ensemble of performance artifacts.
Credits
Information source: HORODNER, Stuart (org.). Walk Ways. New York: Independent Curators International, 2002.
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