Vanishing Point
Performance, 2 h. 2010
An advertising truck bearing a mirrored quote from H. W. Longfellow is driven through the City in London, an area known for its large-scale modern architecture. The text becomes readable when the glass fasciae of the surrounding buildings reflect it as the truck passes. The imposing static edifices become the momentary recipient of the verse.
Vanishing Point
Performance, 2 h. 2010
An advertising truck bearing a mirrored quote from H. W. Longfellow is driven through the City in London, an area known for its large-scale modern architecture. The text becomes readable when the glass fasciae of the surrounding buildings reflect it as the truck passes. The imposing static edifices become the momentary recipient of the verse.
Piggy-backing
Book, 30 x 35 x 4 cm, 2008-2010
This book reproduces some chosen poems from Charles Baudelaire with a system of cut out windows with rotating discs that replaces passages of the text with related commentaries from various authors
Piggy-backing
Book, 30 x 35 x 4 cm, 2008-2010
This book reproduces some chosen poems from Charles Baudelaire with a system of cut out windows with rotating discs that replaces passages of the text with related commentaries from various authors
Oops!… I did it again
HD video, 11 min loop, 2008
This video shows the repeated action of a magician taking a rabbit out of his hat. However the loop is a false one as the rabbits are different from one scene to the other.
Oops!… I did it again
HD video, 11 min loop, 2008
This video shows the repeated action of a magician taking a rabbit out of his hat. However the loop is a false one as the rabbits are different from one scene to the other.
Me,me,me (you)…
Mixed media installation using liquid crystal glass, 175 X 50 X 50 cm, 2007
On this pedestal, the transparent glass case is frosted so that the exhibited work is concealed. Once every two minutes, the glass becomes transparent for one second only. In the archive footage of the showcase one can see ‘Drain’ by R.Gober, 1975, and ‘Olive oil bottle’ by J.Beuys 1984 .
Me,me,me (you)…
Mixed media installation using liquid crystal glass, 175 X 50 X 50 cm, 2007
On this pedestal, the transparent glass case is frosted so that the exhibited work is concealed. Once every two minutes, the glass becomes transparent for one second only. In the archive footage of the showcase one can see ‘Drain’ by R.Gober, 1975, and ‘Olive oil bottle’ by J.Beuys 1984 .
You Say Tomato, I Say Tomato
Book, 30 x 21 cm, 2008
This edition is made of two books that are bonded together, facing each other. On the left side are reproduced the letters of Rousseau to Voltaire, when on the right side are displayed the answers back from Voltaire to Rousseau
You Say Tomato, I Say Tomato
Book, 30 x 21 cm, 2008
This edition is made of two books that are bonded together, facing each other. On the left side are reproduced the letters of Rousseau to Voltaire, when on the right side are displayed the answers back from Voltaire to Rousseau
Slow Cinema
Illuminated rotating advertising boards, posters. 2010
Excerpts from advertising taglines are printed on their own on sets of three rotating advertising boards, thus recreating an absurd looped narrative
Slow Cinema
Illuminated rotating advertising boards, posters. 2010
Excerpts from advertising taglines are printed on their own on sets of three rotating advertising boards, thus recreating an absurd looped narrative
Litanies
Book, 21 x 13 x 0,7 cm, 2008
In this edition of ‘If on a winter night a traveler’, the first chapters of the ten books mentionned in Italo Calvino novel are printed on top of each other
Litanies
Book, 21 x 13 x 0,7 cm, 2008
In this edition of ‘If on a winter night a traveler’, the first chapters of the ten books mentionned in Italo Calvino novel are printed on top of each other
Passe-temps
Book edition of 1, 2010
An edition of ‘The Magic Mountain’ by Thomas Mann is used as an herbarium for 18 dried specimen of wild mountain vegetation.
Passe-temps
Book edition of 1, 2010
An edition of ‘The Magic Mountain’ by Thomas Mann is used as an herbarium for 18 dried specimen of wild mountain vegetation.
Upstairs Downstairs
HD video, 3’56 min loop, 2009
Two maids systematically break the porcelain and glass objects from a bourgeois interior. Their action seem recreate a piece of concrete music that uses sound samples from the breaking of glass pots (Bocalises grande suite by Denis Dufour, 1978)
Upstairs Downstairs
HD video, 3’56 min loop, 2009
Two maids systematically break the porcelain and glass objects from a bourgeois interior. Their action seem recreate a piece of concrete music that uses sound samples from the breaking of glass pots (Bocalises grande suite by Denis Dufour, 1978)
Dear John Letter
Installation, 2010
The letters from ‘ Letters from a Portuguese Nun’ is displayed ripped into pieces, squatter on the floor.
Dear John Letter
Installation, 2010
The letters from ‘ Letters from a Portuguese Nun’ is displayed ripped into pieces, squatter on the floor.
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