« Don’t cry, don’t laugh, only understand. »
installation (created with Krzysztof Szalek)
February 3rd – 4th 1996, « des séances » exhibition in CREDAC, Ivry sur Seine
[…] The presented audiovisual artistic intervention (3 slide projectors, painted light tubes, musical background) is a pursuit of an artistic approach common to the two artists, it is the consequence of their pictorial and photographic research. The starting point of this work is a phrase of Spinoza “Don’t cry, don’t laugh. Only understand.”. On one hand it is a warning about the contemporary reality and the omnipresence of mass media that exercise vigilance and permanent engagement. On the other hand it is a warning about unbridled liberty, liberal choice made without any guidance that involuntarily confines the clearness of our seeing and purity or our hearts. […]
