The Model T Ford | Xavier VEILHAN (1999)

Xavier VEILHAN

The Model T Ford, 1999

Metal steel frame, wood and steel bodywork, restored authentic engine, electrical dolly composed of ten 3 meters modules

175 x 300 x 170 cm | 68 inch x 9.80 ft x 67 inch

Unique

Courtesy Perrotin

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Installation view, 5th floor terrace, Centre Pompidou, Musée National d’Art Moderne, Paris, France

Each part of the vehicle presented here has been shaped and assembled around an original engine; this appropriation of the complete construction of a single vehicle is opposed to methods of production and the economic and social relations still ongoing today, introduced last century by Fordism.
Simple as possible, the approximate feature of the car is yet preserved.
It can be presented either on the ground or on a device that evokes both the assembly line (the mechanization of production) and traveling (the mechanization of the image by the cinema).
The car comes with the visitor, but the repeated movement of back and forth does not lead to any results.

Installation view, 5th floor terrace, Centre Pompidou, Musée National d’Art Moderne, Paris, France