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Good-Bye Darkness IV –
Elephants Don't Play Chess
(a loose conversation on some aspects of BWV 1001–1006 with Kerwin Rolland)


2010
corner piece installation

venetian blind (250 x 120 cm),
two oak plates with mirrors
(each 80 x 49.5 cm) and two engraved synthetic plaques, oak bar, two light bulbs with base,
electronic devices, programmed light cycle, steel wires, electric
cables, several captions on wall.
Unique (+1 E.C.)

Photo: Fréderic Lanternier
© Vittorio Santoro

Installation view
FIAC, Cour Carrée du Louvre, Paris, Oct. 2010

I like to think that the connection between an industrially produced object such as the Venetian blind, associated with a domestic and private realm, and two mirrors facing each other, reflecting each another and de facto creating an infinite reflection, as well as two pulsating light bulbs (programmed according to a light cycle derived from the transcription of a particular sentence including some repetitions and variations) might bring the viewer closer to the "sensuality" of logics, to dependent participation and to the daily questioning about the self-effacing traces of one’s own doing.

vs_ny_nov. 2010

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