EN
Long and vain attempt to take flight. Absurd and pathetic demonstration of our derisory vanities and ambitions.
A strange winged chimera from a fallen mythology rests on the marble. Firmly planted on its 4 legs, this Cypriot rotisserie hums with a dull creak. Its engine clumsily activates a flap of wings to the ruminating rhythm of the rotations of its cooking spits. A few feathers brush the coal.
INSTALLATION / PERFORMANCE / VIDEO /
Le bûcher d'Icare / The pyre of Icarus / Jean-François D'Or.
Part of concert-performance Carte blanche pour un trou noir.
Satellite to exhibition COSMOS / CID Grand-Hornu & MUDAC Lausanne.
MATERIAL /
Plumes d'oie, bois, charbon, grill, moteur / Goose feathers, wood, charcoal, grill, engine.
PRICE /
BOOK /
A publication Carte blanche pour un trou noir includes all the texts, concepts, visuals, access to videos and descriptions of the different installations and performances.
Video © Jean-François D'Or.
Pictures © Ilya Bernatskiy.
EN
Search for meaning in the utopia of a flight. Weight of heavy ambitions. Determination to still fly with one's own wings even though condemned by the gravity and seriousness of the situational comedy. Executioner of himself, Icarus is on his own stake and necessarily knows he is already grilled. We observe the self-cooking of his dream of aerobatics.
Extract from publication Carte blanche pour un trou noir, poétique du Cosmos, Jean-François D'Or, 2023.