En boîte

En boîte (In a Box), 2009.

Mixed media.
30 × 17 × 12 cm (12 × 7 × 5 in).

Exhibition Parcels for the Promised Land,
Kunstbüro, Berlin, 2009.

Conceived for the Parcels for the Promised Land exhibition, about “The Wall” in the required shoebox size.

When the box is open, one can see two similar phrases written in reverse order and enclosed within “walls” — but one phrase is addressed from THEM to US, when the other one is addressed from US to THEM. The text can only be read in the distorting mirror inserted within the lid.

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Reversed and mirrored text.

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The text can only be read in the distorting mirror.

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It degrades us but it also degrades them.
It degrades them but it also degrades us.