Familles de contre fiches

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ARC Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris Ateliers 88

1988

Une poutre coupée en six tronçons à 45° aux deux extrémités recréant un angle droit de 90°.

L'augmentation progressive de la longueur de chacun des éléments installés sur le cylindre qui occupe le centre du musée provoque une gêne dans la circulation des spectateurs qui voudraient raccourcir leur visite en coupant au plus court, à la corde.

Les éléments mis en place entretiennent l'ambiguïté entre fonction et "décoration". On ne sait pas très bien si ce sont des sculptures placées dans les murs du musée ou des éléments fonctionnels qui viennent pallier momentanément un défaut de construction des structures du musée.

 

Family of "contre fiches" *

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ARC Muséum of Modern Art de la Ville de Paris exhibition "Ateliers 88"

1988

One beam is cut into six sections; their two extremities form two 45 degree angles so that I could recreate a 90 degree angle.

Each element is then installed on the cylinder which is placed at the centre of the museum. Their length progressively increases and it causes some difficulties for the spectators to move as they would like to shorten their visiting

There is an ambiguity between function and “decoration” and the elements that have been set up maintain this ambiguity. We don’t really know if they are sculptures that have been placed in the walls of the museum, or if they are functional elements which momentarily try to make up for the manufacturing defects in the structures of the museum.

*I made a play on words through the title “contre fiche” as these two words constitute two different meanings: on the one hand it refers to a construction method called “strut”; and on the other it recalls the expression “not to give a damn”. These are the two significations of “contre fiche”

 

 

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