Si l'on pouvait être un Peau-Rouge / looking forward
The installation Si l'on pouvait être un Peau-rouge / looking forward consists of a human-sized wooden panel whose arrangement evokes the shape of an open book placed on its edge. A frame embedded in the panel contains an off-axis postcard that reveals a cut-out in the wood. By opening up a viewpoint on the space behind the device, this opening creates a new relationship to the environment in line with Henri Poincaré’s theories on non-Euclidean systems of perception. The title refers to a text by Kafka consisting of a dissolution of the original statement “If one could be a Redskin” through reading. In the same way, the viewer has a deceptive experience here. Despite the promise of the title, they are unable to experience decentering. Confronted only with the void and the absence of information, the Other remains inaccessible and unknowable.
Text written by Romane Grouille as part of the partnership between the École du Louvre and Lafayette Anticipations – Fonds de dotation Famille Moulin.
Exhibitions
Centre photographique d’Île-de-France, Pontault-Combault (France)
from 07 May to 13 Jul 2014
La Galerie des Galeries, Paris (France)
from 20 Oct 2009 to 09 Jan 2010