Camping et stationnement de véhicules aménagés interdit

Camping and Parking of Converted Vehicles Prohibited

2022

Radicale 1924, Saint-Cirq-Lapopie (FR)

Mercedes Sprinter, bricks, cement

EN The French law prohibiting spending the night in a vehicle (even if parked on private property) is taken very seriously in the touristic region of the Lot: many streets and car parks have street signs refusing the entrance to camping cars, caravans, and furnished vans. As a reaction on this regulation on tourism, I treated my own van as if it were an empty building in an urban environment where the owner tries to keep squatters out.

I elevated my van as an artwork / sculpture and parked it in the idyllic town of Saint-Cirq-Lapopie. Doing so, I comment on the recent construction of not less than five car parks surrounding the village, which is permanently inhabited by not more than fifteen people and located in a nature reserve. If you own a van as an inhabitant of Saint-Cirq-Lapopie you are even asked to park it further away because it might disturb the image of the village.

By using red construction bricks, I react on the prohibition of the usage of these bricks in the region. Both the multitude of car parks and the brick regulation are a sign of the Disneylandification of European cities and countryside.