Tin Castle, Stéphane Vigny, 2011

Corrugated iron, 800 x 750 x 130 cm. Production Piacé le radieux

Stéphane Vigny was born in 1977. He lives and works in Piacé. Like a builder, he likes to use preformed materials to create his works. While the identity of the objects captured remains recognisable, the scale, material and function are generally altered with consummate humour and formal elegance. Most of the material in his work is taken from a rural context and then moved to different environments, often playfully challenging the utilitarianism associated with rurality. Tin castle is an oversized construction of a familiar game of patience: the house of cards. The corrugated metal, made from corroded agricultural infrastructure, breaks with the 'precarious and unstable' nature of the house of cards, but retains the image of the fragile balance sought by those who play the game.