2 Menoc Hotel

Creation, birdhouses, variable dimensions

"At Melle, after some heated exchanges about the bush. Here, a bush inhabited by birds, a place for reflection on the future rather than a retreat where fear would make the leaves shiver: a sort of conference of the birds. The question of reality and the notion of truth have interested me since the beginning, as well as their inscription on the scale of our perceptions. Like Zeuxis, the ancient artist, who once painted grapes so realistically that birds came to peck at them during a painting contest. His rival Parrhasios directed the jury to a large curtain, believing the painting was behind it, only for the jury to realize that the well-painted curtain was his artwork. One confounds birds, the other humans; here I propose to unsettle both and to peck at 'reality'. Instead of an entrance hole, there is a knot in the wood on the façade of the birdhouse. Thus, no bird can enter the box; the illusion of the initial glance works for both humans and birds. Woodpeckers will undoubtedly disregard this rule."