La Tour, 2005 |
Fir tree construction, 5 x 5 x 3 m
Coop : 5 to 7 hens or roosters, video projection
Production : Galerie Grégoire Maisonneuve, Paris
Co-production : La Maréchalerie, center of contemporary art, Versaille
"The Tower is a new installation to practice. One circulates on two levels: on the first floor, the society of hens, on the first floor, an enigmatic video. The Tower is above all a kind of house representing something of the order of the theater. It is a space of staging, where the spectator is brought on a sort of raised platform and thus becomes a spectacular spectator. The hens or roosters in the henhouse are actors, dancers, in any case extras on a floor that could represent the world. What is played there? And what becomes of this architecture? A court, an asylum? Aren't the characters themselves artists? All these characters form a strange world that relates to the real. This is the role of the artist: to invent forms and confront them with reality."
Coop : 5 to 7 hens or roosters, video projection
Production : Galerie Grégoire Maisonneuve, Paris
Co-production : La Maréchalerie, center of contemporary art, Versaille
"The Tower is a new installation to practice. One circulates on two levels: on the first floor, the society of hens, on the first floor, an enigmatic video. The Tower is above all a kind of house representing something of the order of the theater. It is a space of staging, where the spectator is brought on a sort of raised platform and thus becomes a spectacular spectator. The hens or roosters in the henhouse are actors, dancers, in any case extras on a floor that could represent the world. What is played there? And what becomes of this architecture? A court, an asylum? Aren't the characters themselves artists? All these characters form a strange world that relates to the real. This is the role of the artist: to invent forms and confront them with reality."
— Extract from an interiew with Martine Michard, on the occasion of the exhibition at the Maison des arts Georges & Claude Pompidou, Cajarc, 2005 |
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View of the exhibition Animalités, Maison des arts Georges et Claude Pompidou, Cajarc, 2005 and of the FIAC, Paris, 2005 (with the Galerie Maisonneuve, Paris)