The apple is the image of the Fondation Partage, hence its presence (which can be described as “massive” given the size of the object) in twenty copies as a support for the twenty artists’ interventions, in celebration of the Fondation’s twentieth anniversary. But more broadly, in the collective imagination, it is commonly associated with the forbidden fruit, and therefore with the scene of temptation leading to the expulsion of Eve and Adam from the Garden of Eden.

Although both share the same fate, it is Eve who traditionally bears the burden of responsibility for original sin. In my work, the idea is to go against this pattern and depict a shared responsibility, with each of the two holding out an apple to the other, or even a bunch of apples, or inheriting half an apple shared by the snake itself. The expression of sharing and shared responsibility is achieved here with reference to pictorial representations of Adam and Eve and original sin, in particular those dating from the 16th century by Jan van Scorel, Lucas Cranach the Elder and Frans Floris. All in the style of an apple tree woodcut.