JOUR DE LESSIVE - LAUNDRY DAY

Intervention and edition of postcards Château de la Napoule, France — 2000

Washing line, pegs, clean laundry

Jour de lessive suspends the everyday in the most literal sense: a washing line strung fifteen metres above the ground between the towers of the Château de la Napoule, laden with clean, damp clothes drying in the sea breeze. The humblest of domestic gestures is hoisted to the height of the monument. Laundry hangs where banners once flew; the ephemeral occupies the millennial stone. What the château sought to fix in permanence, a wet shirt undoes in a matter of hours — and leaves nothing behind.