The historical research has benefited from the valuable assistance of the Municipal Archive of Ivry-sur-Seine.
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Statue of Work, place Nationale, Ivry, 1911, postcard, Municipal Archive of Ivry-sur-Seine -
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Postcard from Ivry, posted on April 14th, 1914: Work hard! -
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Statue of Work, in its actual location, the base enhanced with bricks, Ivry, 1927, postcard, Municipal Archive of Ivry-sur-Seine. In the square a little girl is jumping rope, under the kind gaze of the worker. -
The Excellent Worker, Charles Théodore Perron, 1909, the plaster original at the Petit Palais Museum, Paris, April 2023 -
At the Municipal Archive of Ivry-sur-Seine, June 2024 -
The Right to Be Lazy by Paul Lafargue in an edition from the 1930s, a glass of absynthe and the currency of the Vichy regime stamped with Work, Family, Homeland, the words that had replaced the republican motto Liberty, Equality, Fraternity. -
The Child with the Helmet, Ivry, July 2024. During a first visit to the sculpture storage and workshop of the City of Paris (COARC - Conservatory of Religious and Civil Works of Paris), we came across this plaster sculpture, prepared for bronze casting. A chilling scene: the little kid, tenderly surrounded by his parents, is wearing a helmet — as if he was preparing to go to war… -
My Name is Croft, Lara Croft, encounter of the third kind, at DÉMÉVAL, Ivry, July 2024
