Déjà-vu – Salle Pont, MACS, Grand-Hornu (2002-2025)
2025

Site-specific mixed-media installation.
Cut vinyl; metal cables; MDF; paint. 
Dimensions variable.

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This site-specific installation, presented in my solo exhibition The White Cube is Never Empty, revisits the history of exhibitions held at MACS, Grand-Hornu (Belgium) since its founding in 2002, through a selection of photographic images drawn from the museum’s archives, depicting scenes from eight exhibitions from different artists. Taken by photographers Isabelle Arthuis and Philippe De Gobert, who are regularly commissioned by the institution for documentary assignments, these images were reenacted in the physical exhibition space through different techniques, such as anamorphoses, and reinserted into the very locations where they were originally taken, underscoring the importance of place and perspective in the processes of memory and its narratives.

Images –and viewers– from Patrick Corillon. Les Pensées Poissons (2005), Le Tableau des éléments (2005), Bernd and Hilla Becher. Typologies anciennes (2006), Angel Vergara. Portraits (2007), Des Fantômes et des Anges (2007–2008), Le Fabuleux Destin du quotidien (2010), De toutes pièces (2017) and Haim Steinbach. Objects for People (2025), became the content of my installation, in a palimpsest that yuxtaposes different times of a same exhibition space in an excercise of remembering.

 

Credits:

General installation views and details of the exhibition The White Cube is Never Empty. MACS, Grand-Hornu (Hornu, 2025).
A comission by Europalia España and by MACS, produced by Palosanto.
Digital production: Alberto Custodia Martínez.
Images: Isabelle Arthuis.