Expos : EXIT SHOW : It is a small world after all
"EXIT SHOW":
"It is a small world after all"
1998 - 2001
Depuis 1989 le thème du passage à travers l' emploi
de différents symboles tels que les portes , fenêtres
etc.. est devenu lun des centres d'intérêt de
mes préoccupations artistiques . Dès 1998, j'ai donc
commencé à travailler avec les enseignes de sortie
de secours américaines :EXIT signs caractérisés
par leur visibilité , et qui, par leur aspect réglementaire,
ont été imposées au paysage de larchitecture
intérieure de tous les espaces publics aux Etats -Unis.
Les diverses installations d' " Exit Show " ("Exit
shutters", "Exit music boxes", "Exit Crosses"
et "Exit Ferris wheel") sont autant de tentatives différentes
de représentations de ce passage, zone intermittante , Inter-espace
où se confrontent la fin /le commencement, l'après
/l'avant, l'ordre / le désordre : antagonismes d' où
dérive la transformation :

EXIT Shutters, detail - 1998.-lights off-
wood-steel-glass-Exit sign-magnet switch
(the light turns off as soon as you open the shutters)
31x21x5
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1) "Exit Shutters"
trouve son signifié à travers l'extinction des
ampoules de l'enseigne " Exit " provoquée
par l' ouverture des volets. |

Exit music box - 1998
Exit boxe-glass-screen- B.&W. photos-ligth bulb system-stamp-music
mechanism-("It's a small world after all")
7x10.1/4x4.
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2) "Exit Music boxes"
raconte comment cet "Inter-Espace" capture le passé
: l'enfance devient ici cet espace régressif voire
mélancolique oscillant entre la boîte à
musique et la trousse de secours. |

Exit Crosses installations - 1998
wood-glass-steel-hair-photographies-leaves-exit sign box-lights-paper
95x134 x7.
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3) La dualité de la composition d"Exit
Crosses" démontre elle, comment ce signe futuriste
Exit par sa capacité de luminosité projective
nie, dissout, les lumières introjectives du passé.
Le passé affiche donc sa résistance en se multipliant.
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Exit Crosses Detail - 1998
wood-paper-steel-hair- photographiy-leaf-plastic-light
12x12x7.
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EXIT Ferris Wheel - 2001
steel-Exit signs-low voltage electrical system (12V.)-motor-slip
ring-transformer
9x9x10 (environ 300cmx300cmx400cm)
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4) "Exit Ferris wheel" symbolise
, quant à elle, le mécanisme interne de l'Inter-espace
: machine aux rotations lentes et impertubables par lesquelles
la transformation est rendue possible. |
Différents parcours de ma vie m ayant conduit successivement
: à connaître le statu dimmigrant aux Etats-Unis
pendant onze ans , à côtoyer professionnellement des
personnes souffrant de troubles psychotiques et actuellement des
personnes âgées souffrant de syndrome dépressif
, mont donc permis dexpérimenter cet Inter- Espace
socialement situé ni en dehors ni en dedans .
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"EXIT SHOW:
IT IS A SMALL WORLD AFTER ALL"
1998 - 2001
Since 1989 my artistic work deals mainly with the passages (through
doors, windows) which induce a transformation by being the end and
the beginning of a space ; what I define as the "inter space".
In a 1998 series, I began to work with emergency EXIT signs: the
EXIT light boxes add a notion of suddenness to the theme; as an
ultimate call to motion which amplifies the process of transformation
and its potentiality.
The different installations of the EXIT Show ("Exit Shutters",
"Exit Music boxes", "Exit Crosses", "EXIT
Ferris Wheel") are representative of reflections about this
"inter space". The EXIT space which comes after an end
(destruction/ disorder) and before a beginning (reconstruction/
order). This antagonism represents the genesis of a potential transformation.
For example in ''EXIT Shutters" installation, meaning is derived
by the EXIT light disappearing as soon as one attempts to reach
it. (The light turns off as the viewer opens the shutters).
The "EXIT Music Box" installation represents the past
trapped into the exit box, metamorphosed here into a First aid music
box.
The "EXIT Crosses" installation demonstrates the capacity
of the Exit sign to absorb memories which opposes their consumption
by their multiplication.( the Exit sign in this piece has to be
counterbalanced by seven memories boxes ).
The "EXIT Ferris Wheel" is set up as a machine which processes
transformation .
Through these four installations, the EXIT sign box is denying
the past, but the past opposes this obliteration leaving the foundation
of an eventual reconstruction.
As a french person living the last 11 years in Chicago of United States
after being a specialized nurse for twelve years in a psychiatric
hospital in Paris, France, I have often been personally caught within
and forced to confront this insider/outsider experience of the INTER
SPACE: once in the hospital as an observer, and once in the states
as an actor. |