Installation, visual arts, and sound art. By Bénédicte Davin and Emmanuel Kervyn.

‘What remains of the landscapes we have crossed when we close our eyes?’ With his words, Gilles Clément evokes our inner landscapes, those that make us up, built upon those we have wandered, that dwell within us. With her voice, with her body, a woman inhabits the space, just as it is acted upon by her. Her vocalized texts rest on the floor, collide with the paper walls, merge into the image. Could it be a paradox: the abstraction of poets needs the texture of paper to be written, a duality that is the source of the journey between ‘the infinite inside and the infinite outside’ (Artaud). The paper itself is moving, receiving the words, the shadows, the landscapes, a versatile ally of this silhouette to the point of absorbing it.Outside the frame, and sometimes within it, there is a discreet presence of a parallel solitude; a man activating the installation accompanies these reflections with his gestures, which punctuate, reinforce, and extend them, sometimes in counterpoint.

As the snow advances, the rain crackles, the sea breathes, the sound of Asmus Tietchens, sometimes electric, sometimes liquid, seems to want to reconcile the immensity of the landscapes with the finitude of our condition.

With texts by Paul Eluard, Herman Hesse, Jacques Izoard, François Jacqmin, Bénédicte Davin, Emmanuel Kervyn

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