Sabine Réthoré 1998-2010

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Gaïa

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Méditerranée

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The Verb

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Nameless Earth

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Tribute to Sao Tome

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Our Chiefs

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Cool globes Project

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GAÏA (2003)

 

 We are brought up by loving mothers. They nail us firmly to the ground, where we remain, incapable of taking flight. They feed us and we feed them. In French the words to feed (nourrir) and infant (nourrisson) have the same origin.

This globe is made for the pleasure of the eyes. I wanted to create an object that would give one an idea of what an astronaut might feel after a few months’ journey without gravity,

without strawberry ice-cream, caresses, sex or offspring.

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This globe differs from the others by its flesh colour and the shifting of the north and south poles. Its axis of rotation crosses the equator and is made in such a way that the South Pole appears regularily before spectators’ eyes as they turn the sphere around.

This South Pole is fashioned in the shape of an areola, giving the globe the mammary aspect

of a mother earth that one could readily embrace. It is attractive because of its strawberry ice-cream colour, somewhere between a sweetmeat and a sexual object.