PREMS | Sean Cordeiro & Claire Healy

  • Sean Cordeiro & Claire Healy, installation view, 2009
  • Sean Cordeiro & Claire Healy, installation view, 2009
  • Sean Cordeiro & Claire Healy, World view, 2009
  • Sean Cordeiro & Claire Healy, PPPPPPPP (perfect planning and prior preparation prevents piss poor performance), 2009

PREMS

PREMS, La Bf15, Lyon, 2009

 

In PREMS, Sean Cordeiro & Claire Healy have reproduced with Lego bricks the terrain of a region of China known as China’s "Area 51". Discovered in 2006 thanks to satellite images of Google Earth, this area appears to be an exact replica, scale 500:1, of 157 500 km2 within the Chinese province of Aksai Chin, a border region adjoining India and China. The reasons for the creation of the original model of Aksai Chin remain a mystery : The area is important for China because it connects Tibet with a road that the Chinese built in 1962