Preview of the triptyque IcebergClub, CasinoClub, FourrésClub,
digital films,33 min, 1999-2002. Extracts, 4 minutes.
Views of the installation at gallery éof, Paris 2018, remake of 2004 JPPPPT show.
The preview is avaible by clic the circles (designed by Pierre Em Meunier).
Courtesy galery éof, Paris, 2018, with
Pierre-Em Meunier's Bag, 1998, witch is a
piece playing in FourrésClub.
" Par contre, si on évalue tout ce qu'il aurait fallu soustraire pour que l'événement n'ait pas lieu, alors que de toute évidence il ne pouvait pas ne pas avoir lieu.
Ainsi il aurait fallu qu'il n'y ait pas de pont de l'Alma, ni donc de bataille de l'Alma.
Qu'il n'y ait pas de Mercedes, ni donc de firme allemande dont le fondateur ait une fille appelée Mercedes. Ni de Dodi, ni de Ritz, ni de toute fortune des princes arabes, ni la rivalité avec les Britanniques.
Il aurait fallu effacer l'empire Britannique lui-même, etc. Ainsi, a contrario et in absentia, tout concourt à l'impérieuse nécessité de cette mort."
J.Baudrillard, L’échange impossible.
"On the other hand, if we assess all that would have had not to have happened forthe event not to take place, then quite clearly it could not but occur.
There would have had to have been no Pont de l'Alma, and hence no Battle of the Alma. There would have had to have been no Mercedes, and hence no German car company
whose founder had a daughter called Mercedes. No Dodi and no Ritz, nor all thewealth of the Arab princes and the historical rivalry with the British. The British Empire itself would have had to have been wiped from history. So everything combines, a contrario and in absentia, to demonstrate the urgent necessity of this death."
J.Baudrillard, Impossible Exchange
IcebergClub, full length, 31 min
CasinoClub, full length, 30 min
FourrésClub, full length, 30 min
Extrapolations IceberClub, ink on paper, 2003, variable dimensions.
Extrapolations IceberClub, ink on paper, 2003, variable dimensions.
Extrapolations IceberClub, ink on paper, 2003, variable dimensions.