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LIFE & DEATH

After AIDS, these factors which traverse our world require from us a more elaborate, more evolved philosophy.
These meanings, which before AIDS were to be universally understood, are now undergoing dramatic changes. Discovering insight into these changes will be the first step ahead to living with AIDS, and within this process ART will become the material through which to imagine our evolution.

this side and the other
the one and the other
self and not-self
us and them
men and women
homosexual and heterosexual
homosexual and "the general population"
vice and virtue
oppression and desire
blood relative and not-blood relative
blood contact and skin contact
safe and risk
safe sex and bad sex
safe sex and good sex
HIV positive and HIV negative
victim and perpetrator
normal and abnormal
natural and alien
political and personal
science and not-science
doctor and patient
platonic and promiscuous
rule and free
moral and immoral
artist and not-artist
activist and not-activist
image and message

To traverse the system of borders/difference with all of one's imagination.
The courage to examine once more the saturation of meaning that ruptures us and the restoration of humanity that arrives at last.
A sublimating power spiraling into a pure white horizon from a pitch black plane composed of all manner of lines.
This perhaps approaches the image of an as yet unknown "invention of humanity."



Exhibitons:

SPIRAL - Tokyo, Japan (1994)
Espace d'Art Yvonamor Palix - Paris, France (1995) as part of the exhibition "Donai yanen ! Et maintenant !"
Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts - Paris, France (1998) as part of the exhibition "Fancy Dance"
Artsonje Museum - Kyongju, Korea (1999)
Artsonje Center - Seoul, Korea (1999)
Museum am Ostwall - Dortmund, Gemany (2000) as part of the exhibition "Vision Ruhr"

New version: Centre Pompidou-Metz, as part of "ACTIONS+REFLEXIONS" (Dumb Type solo exhibition), Metz, France (2018)