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 in situ installation revisits the history of exhibitions held at
MACS since its founding in 2002, through a selection of photographic
documents drawn from the museum’s archives. Taken by photographers
Isabelle Arthuis and Philippe De Gobert, who are regularly commissioned
by the institution for documentary assignments, these images have been
distorted to create 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.
To explore this, eight exhibition views were selected — 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).
To explore this, eight exhibition views were selected — 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).
Credits
Digital production: Alberto Custodia Martínez.
A comission by Europalia España and by MACS, produced by Palosanto.
Images: Isabelle Arthuis.
Digital production: Alberto Custodia Martínez.
A comission by Europalia España and by MACS, produced by Palosanto.
Images: Isabelle Arthuis.