What happens to culture as it’s observed ?

Les Arts Ephemeres is a collective exhibition that takes place outdoors in a pristine, classical park where the Mayor's offices of the 9th/10th districts of Marseille sits. As I walked around the park and recognized species of plants and trees that were brought there around the turn of the 20th century, the confusion of 'culture' became apparent to me as I considered the act of enclosing displaced plants in a man-made, 'natural' space as well as the upcoming contemporary art exhibition. Parks are strange places. I like to picnic in them, but they can also feel too organized and contained.

I began asking the questions, How do we access culture? How do we seize not only the meaning, but the very stuff of what 'culture' is made of? What does it look like or mean to contain culture, like in a park or an exhibition? 

With the intentions of confronting these questions, I constructed a 10 meter long pair of workers’ pants that hung on a line between 2 trees in the park as if they were put out to dry. These pants literally 'magnify' an aspect of quotidien life in La Provence, where they were exhibited.