I lie. I have always lied a lot. One of those compromises with reality of which my mother was already the queen, and which has become for me a way of preaching the false to make the true even truer.<\/p>\n
As I am also a collector, I believe I can say that I collect lies.<\/p>\n
This inclination to tell \u201cfibs\u201d explains the jubilation that Robert Doisneau\u2019s Tout est factice<\/em> arouses in me. This is \u00a0a photo he took in 1942 (a period of war and restriction) in which a couple of grocers pose in their shop in front of shelves full of products clearly announced as fake.<\/p>\n 80 years later, without having lost any of its relevance, this Tout est factice<\/em> directly refers to the paradox of art: a perfectly crafted lie that makes you dream. A reason that seemed sufficient to me to revive a shop window in Li\u00e8ge and display objects that question the imperative to \u201cbring back unfamiliar elements onto the art scene.\u201d In this case, bringing a set of toy clubs (Inflatable Caveman Club collection), mostly made of plastic or fabric, back \u201cinto the art window\u201d, coexisting with their wood or plaster replicas produced in my studio.<\/p>\n After having made an initial shift from the cave to the toy store, the exhibited clubs perform a second shift, from the toy store to the art scene. A series of movements that are \u201caccelerated\u201d by the potential violence of the initial object (the club, the puzzle) and that of the context of the photo (war and the risk of being robbed of rare commodities).<\/p>\n Avowed objective: to produce an installation that, beyond a first reading, resists interpretations and sows doubt about its true stakes. What are we looking at? A grocery store? an armory? a joke shop?<\/p>\n While I was designing this installation, I couldn’t help but think of Joseph Beuys’ Wirtschaftswerte<\/em> social sculpture (1980 SMAK Gent), and the fact that a confessed fake news<\/em> is halfway forgiven.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":4354,"template":"","exposition":[45],"class_list":["post-3753","vitrine","type-vitrine","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","exposition-en14"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artaucentre.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vitrine\/3753","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/artaucentre.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vitrine"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/artaucentre.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/vitrine"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artaucentre.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4354"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artaucentre.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"exposition","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artaucentre.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/exposition?post=3753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}