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le vol

Project carried out in 2011 and presented from 2 to 13 November 2015 at the Town Hall of the 1st district of Lyon (France) in resonance with the 13th Lyon Biennial of Contemporary Art


"Le Vol" (The Theft) is a project that took shape in several stages with, first of all, the choice of a work of French literature by a major author of the beginning of the twentieth century ("L'enfer" by Henri Barbusse) - for the subject of the particularly topical voyeurism on which its plot is based (a solitary man locked in a hotel room observes the scenes taking place in the room next door without being noticed) but also for what it represents as an edited object - and its appropriation in the literal sense. Thus, taking the text from the digital version available on the Internet, I proposed it as a manuscript to the main French publishers (including Albin Michel, Henri Barbusse's current publisher) as "Le Vol, roman du vingtième siècle" by Djan Silveberg, without having made the slightest modification. Faced with unanimous refusals in return, I had this new version of the book published, thereby generating a new work from an old one.

"Le Vol" (The Theft) has been designed to question both the intellectual appropriation and the voyeurism of today's society. It is based on highlighting different aspects of our contemporary society and questions the automatisms of the editorial world, the limits of new forms of creation as well as the generalised oblivion, or even obsolescence, of a work.


« I believe in a high form of the poem, in the work where beauty is mixed with beliefs. The more I feel incapable of it, the more I believe it is possible. This dreary splendour that some of my memories overwhelm me with, shows me from afar that it is possible. Sometimes I have been sublime, a masterpiece. Sometimes my visions were mixed with a shiver of evidence so strong and so creative that the whole room shuddered like wood and there were moments when silence screamed. But all this I stole. I didn't conquer it, I took advantage of it, thanks to the shamelessness of the truth, which showed itself. At the point in time and space where, by chance, I found myself, all I had to do was open my eyes and stretch out my beggar's hands, to make more than a dream and almost a work. What I saw will disappear, since I won't do anything with it. I am like a mother whose fruit of flesh will perish after being. What does it matter! I had the announcement of what would be most beautiful. Through me passed, without stopping, the word, the verb, which does not lie and which, repeated, will satiate. »


"Le Vol" has been the subject of :

The publication of two books: "Le Vol, roman du vingtième siècle", 255 pages, Odes & Chimères editions, 2015, ISBN 2-911795-01-6 and "Corpus Delicti", 62 pages, Odes & Chimères editions, 2015, ISBN 2-911795-02-4. These two books, published in 300 copies, numbered and signed, and presented together in a specific case, constitute both the object produced by the project and the written trace that documents it.

An exhibition from 2 to 13 November 2015 at the City Hall of the 1st district of Lyon in resonance with the 13th Lyon Biennial of Contemporary Art. The press communication for this exhibition was in the form of anonymous letters made from cut-out newsprint.

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