Bodhan Litnisansi came from Russia to France as a teenager in the 1930s. He fought in the Second World War, was captured and spent five years in a prison camp. After the war he was repatriated to Viry-Noureuil, where he bought a house that was cheap and dilapidated. Reconstructing his house, he started to collect shells from the local restuarants wich he used to decorate the walls. Litnianski also started his daily visit to the local tip, hoarding his finds in a slag heap at the back of his house. Out of this encyclopedic collection of Viry-Noureuil’s stuff, grew a garden of jumbled chronological stratas; a mythical map of the village.
This wall is the side of Litniansi’s house and is not just rendered with these objects but made out of them. These, he told the local newspaper, were among his favourite objects, because of the stories they told.
