Not Vital: Naiv Installation
My name is Not Vital. I am a Swiss sculptor, living in Switzerland most of the time, but also in New York - moved there in the 70s - and lately also in West Africa and in South America.
The work that I did here for Blood on Paper - when Elena Foster, when she invited me, I immediately thought of making a book in Romansche. But since Romansche is a minority language - only 36,000 people speak it - probably the smallest language spoken in Europe - I thought of making a big book and therefore I used the whole wall.
The content of it -I wanted to do something with snow, so I called it 'Naif' which is the Romansche word for snow. In my work I am using plaster quite often, which at a certain moment, for a very short time, it has the same consistency as snow. That's why I mix plaster and when it hardens I use it almost like snowballs and I throw it at the wall.
This is the piece that I did here at the V& A.
Swiss sculptor Not Vital talks about his installation for 'Blood on Paper: the Art of the Book'. Includes footage of him creating his work 'Naiv' in the exhibition space.
