Michel DE BROIN. MACHINATIONS
To burst open the wall of the museum in order to insert an anxious object serves as a metaphor for the modern conflict opposing art and institutions. Such an historic moment is re-enacted in reference to current events and conspiracy theories. The artistic project finds its fallacious justification in a text partially reproduce in the catalogue of the art show. The Northwoods operation supported by the US Army in 1962 was aimed at justifying a military intervention against the communist threat. To do so, the document proposed the use of commercial planes to perpetuate false terrorist attacks. On September 11, 2001, a plane disappeared without traces in the womb of the Pentagon. It seems that there is no image permitting to identify the plane, few fragments, nothing tangible that is not a state secret. The Engine (2006) disappeared as an evidence to reappear as an art work. It’s a free interpretation of the fuselage of a Rolls-Royce plane engine RB211. The space occupied by the volume allows us, by absurd reasoning, to measure the scale of the disappearance.
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