, you are lying on the floor
of your place looking up, a small draft runs through the room, between the door and the window, and all things seem perfectly still, wind only disturbs concrete
in imperceptible ways, or it may take millions
of years to be noticed and, as the air runs through the space, all your plants move and all is animated and all is alive somehow, and here are the thoughts
of all men
in all ages and lands, they are not original with me, and that wind upon your plants is the common air that bathes the globe, and we have no ambitions
of universalism, and I'm glad we don't, but the particles
of air bring traces
of pollen and are charged with electricity, desert sand, maybe sea water, and these particles were somewhere else before they were dragged here, and their route will not end by the door
of this house, and if we tell each other stories, one can imagine that they might have been bathed by this same air, regrouped and recombined, recharged as a vehicle for sound, swirling as it moves, bringing the sound
of a drum, like that Kabuki story where a fox recognizes the voice
of its parents as a girl plays a drum made out
of their skin, or any other event, and yet I always felt your work never tells stories, I tend to think that narrative implies a past tense, even if that past was just five seconds ago, one second ago was already the past, and human memory is irrelevant
in geological time, plants and fish know not what tomorrow will bring, neither rocks nor metal do, but we all live here now, and we all need visions and we all need dreams, and as long as your metal sculptures vibrate they are always
in the Present, and their past is a material truth alien to narrative, but well, maybe narrative does not imply a past tense at all and they are writing their own story while they gently move and breathe, and maybe nothing was really still before the wind came
in, passing through the window as if through an irrational portal to make those plants dance, but everything was already moving and breathing
in near complete
silence, and if you're focused enough you can feel the pulse
of a concrete
wall and you can feel the tectonic movements
of the earth, and you can hear the magma flowing under our feet and our bones crackling like a wild fire, and you can see the light
of fireflies reflected
in polished metal, and there is nothing magical about that, it is just the way things are, and sometimes we have to raise our voice because the music is too loud and let your clothes move to a powerful bass, sound waves and bright lights, powerful like the sun, blinding us if we stare for too long, but isn't it the biggest sign
of love, like singing to a corn field, and all acts
of kindness that are not pitiful nor utilitarian, that are truly horizontal as everything around us is impregnated with the deadliest violence, vertical and systemic, poisonous, and sometimes you just want to feel the sun burning your skin and look for life
in all things declared dead, a kind
of vitality that operates like corrosion, strong as the wind near the sea, transforming all things,
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of Space (Phase II), curated by Nancy Spector, Guggenheim Gallery, New York, US Held Together With Water: Art From the Sammlung Verband, curated by Gabriele Schor, MAK, Vienna, AT; Istanbul Museum
of Modern Art, Istanbul, TR A Theater Without Theater, MACBA, Barcelona, ES MARTa Is Silent - The Art of Silence from Duchamp to the Present, The Mystery of the Etruscans, curated by Jan Hoet and Michael Kröger, MARTa Herford, DE 52nd International Art Exhibition: Think with the Senses - Feel with the Mind, Art in the Present Tense, curated by Robert Storr, La Biennale di Venezia, Venice, IT Guggenheim Collection: 1940s to Now, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, AU Monument of Sugar, curated by Lonnie van Brummelen, Siebren de Haan, Argos Centre for Art and Media, Brussels, BE À propos de Carl Andre..., Espace d'Art Contemporain, Saint Restitut, FR Verzameling Roger En Hilda Matthys - Cole, curated by Joost Declerq, Museum Dhondt - Dhaenens, Deurle, BE On Fait le mur, flux + territoires + frontières = multimedia, Espace de L'Art Concret, Mouans - Sartoux, FR Visiting Card, Brigitte March Galerie, Stuttgart, DE Iceland, curated by Tony Trehy, Bury Art Gallery, Bury, UK Grey Water, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane, AU The Showroom Talks: I Can't Live Without..., The Showroom, London, UK Beyond the Wall, curated by Haus Lieberman, the Brandenburger Tor Foundation, Nationalgalerie im Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin, DE A Second Quarter, screening Bodypoliticx, curated by Florian Waldvogel, Thomas Edlinger, Witte de With, Rotterdam, NL Art Protects, Yvon Lambert, Paris, FR 30/40 A Selection Of Forty Artists From Thirty Years At Marian Goodman Gallery, Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, US Herb & Dorothy, New York, US 25 Years Crone Gallery, Galerie Crone, Berlin, DE Pawnshop, e-flux, New York, US Chez Dominique Perrault Architecture, des œuvres de la collection Billarant, Dominique Perrault Architecture, Paris, FR Art & Project Bulletins: 1968 - 1989, Specific Object, New York, US Fia
of Modern Art, Istanbul, TR A Theater Without Theater, MACBA, Barcelona, ES MARTa Is Silent - The Art
of Silence from Duchamp to the Present, The Mystery of the Etruscans, curated by Jan Hoet and Michael Kröger, MARTa Herford, DE 52nd International Art Exhibition: Think with the Senses - Feel with the Mind, Art in the Present Tense, curated by Robert Storr, La Biennale di Venezia, Venice, IT Guggenheim Collection: 1940s to Now, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, AU Monument of Sugar, curated by Lonnie van Brummelen, Siebren de Haan, Argos Centre for Art and Media, Brussels, BE À propos de Carl Andre..., Espace d'Art Contemporain, Saint Restitut, FR Verzameling Roger En Hilda Matthys - Cole, curated by Joost Declerq, Museum Dhondt - Dhaenens, Deurle, BE On Fait le mur, flux + territoires + frontières = multimedia, Espace de L'Art Concret, Mouans - Sartoux, FR Visiting Card, Brigitte March Galerie, Stuttgart, DE Iceland, curated by Tony Trehy, Bury Art Gallery, Bury, UK Grey Water, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane, AU The Showroom Talks: I Can't Live Without..., The Showroom, London, UK Beyond the Wall, curated by Haus Lieberman, the Brandenburger Tor Foundation, Nationalgalerie im Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin, DE A Second Quarter, screening Bodypoliticx, curated by Florian Waldvogel, Thomas Edlinger, Witte de With, Rotterdam, NL Art Protects, Yvon Lambert, Paris, FR 30/40 A Selection Of Forty Artists From Thirty Years At Marian Goodman Gallery, Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, US Herb & Dorothy, New York, US 25 Years Crone Gallery, Galerie Crone, Berlin, DE Pawnshop, e-flux, New York, US Chez Dominique Perrault Architecture, des œuvres de la collection Billarant, Dominique Perrault Architecture, Paris, FR Art & Project Bulletins: 1968 - 1989, Specific Object, New York, US Fia
of Silence from Duchamp to the Present, The Mystery
of the Etruscans, curated by Jan Hoet and Michael Kröger, MARTa Herford, DE 52nd International Art Exhibition: Think with the Senses - Feel with the Mind, Art in the Present Tense, curated by Robert Storr, La Biennale di Venezia, Venice, IT Guggenheim Collection: 1940s to Now, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, AU Monument of Sugar, curated by Lonnie van Brummelen, Siebren de Haan, Argos Centre for Art and Media, Brussels, BE À propos de Carl Andre..., Espace d'Art Contemporain, Saint Restitut, FR Verzameling Roger En Hilda Matthys - Cole, curated by Joost Declerq, Museum Dhondt - Dhaenens, Deurle, BE On Fait le mur, flux + territoires + frontières = multimedia, Espace de L'Art Concret, Mouans - Sartoux, FR Visiting Card, Brigitte March Galerie, Stuttgart, DE Iceland, curated by Tony Trehy, Bury Art Gallery, Bury, UK Grey Water, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane, AU The Showroom Talks: I Can't Live Without..., The Showroom, London, UK Beyond the Wall, curated by Haus Lieberman, the Brandenburger Tor Foundation, Nationalgalerie im Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin, DE A Second Quarter, screening Bodypoliticx, curated by Florian Waldvogel, Thomas Edlinger, Witte de With, Rotterdam, NL Art Protects, Yvon Lambert, Paris, FR 30/40 A Selection Of Forty Artists From Thirty Years At Marian Goodman Gallery, Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, US Herb & Dorothy, New York, US 25 Years Crone Gallery, Galerie Crone, Berlin, DE Pawnshop, e-flux, New York, US Chez Dominique Perrault Architecture, des œuvres de la collection Billarant, Dominique Perrault Architecture, Paris, FR Art & Project Bulletins: 1968 - 1989, Specific Object, New York, US Fia
of the Etruscans, curated by Jan Hoet and Michael Kröger, MARTa Herford, DE 52nd International Art Exhibition: Think with the Senses - Feel with the Mind, Art
in the Present Tense, curated by Robert Storr, La Biennale di Venezia, Venice, IT Guggenheim Collection: 1940s to Now, National Gallery
of Victoria, Melbourne, AU Monument of Sugar, curated by Lonnie van Brummelen, Siebren de Haan, Argos Centre for Art and Media, Brussels, BE À propos de Carl Andre..., Espace d'Art Contemporain, Saint Restitut, FR Verzameling Roger En Hilda Matthys - Cole, curated by Joost Declerq, Museum Dhondt - Dhaenens, Deurle, BE On Fait le mur, flux + territoires + frontières = multimedia, Espace de L'Art Concret, Mouans - Sartoux, FR Visiting Card, Brigitte March Galerie, Stuttgart, DE Iceland, curated by Tony Trehy, Bury Art Gallery, Bury, UK Grey Water, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane, AU The Showroom Talks: I Can't Live Without..., The Showroom, London, UK Beyond the Wall, curated by Haus Lieberman, the Brandenburger Tor Foundation, Nationalgalerie im Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin, DE A Second Quarter, screening Bodypoliticx, curated by Florian Waldvogel, Thomas Edlinger, Witte de With, Rotterdam, NL Art Protects, Yvon Lambert, Paris, FR 30/40 A Selection Of Forty Artists From Thirty Years At Marian Goodman Gallery, Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, US Herb & Dorothy, New York, US 25 Years Crone Gallery, Galerie Crone, Berlin, DE Pawnshop, e-flux, New York, US Chez Dominique Perrault Architecture, des œuvres de la collection Billarant, Dominique Perrault Architecture, Paris, FR Art & Project Bulletins: 1968 - 1989, Specific Object, New York, US Fia
of Victoria, Melbourne, AU Monument
of Sugar, curated by Lonnie van Brummelen, Siebren de Haan, Argos Centre for Art and Media, Brussels, BE À propos de Carl Andre..., Espace d'Art Contemporain, Saint Restitut, FR Verzameling Roger En Hilda Matthys - Cole, curated by Joost Declerq, Museum Dhondt - Dhaenens, Deurle, BE On Fait le mur, flux + territoires + frontières = multimedia, Espace de L'Art Concret, Mouans - Sartoux, FR Visiting Card, Brigitte March Galerie, Stuttgart, DE Iceland, curated by Tony Trehy, Bury Art Gallery, Bury, UK Grey Water, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane, AU The Showroom Talks: I Can't Live Without..., The Showroom, London, UK Beyond the Wall, curated by Haus Lieberman, the Brandenburger Tor Foundation, Nationalgalerie im Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin, DE A Second Quarter, screening Bodypoliticx, curated by Florian Waldvogel, Thomas Edlinger, Witte de With, Rotterdam, NL Art Protects, Yvon Lambert, Paris, FR 30/40 A Selection Of Forty Artists From Thirty Years At Marian Goodman Gallery, Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, US Herb & Dorothy, New York, US 25 Years Crone Gallery, Galerie Crone, Berlin, DE Pawnshop, e-flux, New York, US Chez Dominique Perrault Architecture, des œuvres de la collection Billarant, Dominique Perrault Architecture, Paris, FR Art & Project Bulletins: 1968 - 1989, Specific Object, New York, US Fia
of Sugar, curated by Lonnie van Brummelen, Siebren de Haan, Argos Centre for Art and Media, Brussels, BE À propos de Carl Andre..., Espace d'Art Contemporain, Saint Restitut, FR Verzameling Roger En Hilda Matthys - Cole, curated by Joost Declerq, Museum Dhondt - Dhaenens, Deurle, BE On Fait le mur, flux + territoires + frontières = multimedia, Espace de L'Art Concret, Mouans - Sartoux, FR Visiting Card, Brigitte March Galerie, Stuttgart, DE Iceland, curated by Tony Trehy, Bury Art Gallery, Bury, UK Grey Water, Institute
of Modern Art, Brisbane, AU The Showroom Talks: I Can't Live Without..., The Showroom, London, UK Beyond the Wall, curated by Haus Lieberman, the Brandenburger Tor Foundation, Nationalgalerie im Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin, DE A Second Quarter, screening Bodypoliticx, curated by Florian Waldvogel, Thomas Edlinger, Witte de With, Rotterdam, NL Art Protects, Yvon Lambert, Paris, FR 30/40 A Selection Of Forty Artists From Thirty Years At Marian Goodman Gallery, Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, US Herb & Dorothy, New York, US 25 Years Crone Gallery, Galerie Crone, Berlin, DE Pawnshop, e-flux, New York, US Chez Dominique Perrault Architecture, des œuvres de la collection Billarant, Dominique Perrault Architecture, Paris, FR Art & Project Bulletins: 1968 - 1989, Specific Object, New York, US Fia
of Modern Art, Brisbane, AU The Showroom Talks: I Can't Live Without..., The Showroom, London, UK Beyond the
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