Installation by Fred Penelle and Yannick Jacquet combines the old and new, mixing woodblock prints with animated projections:
Minutely constructed like a fine clock, it traces connections, routes,
genuinely-false, looping itineraries, inviting escape, inviting dreams.
The narrative is deconstructed like a thousand-storied film script.
Every effort is made to lead astray, to turn around, to forge ahead.
Time is shredded, decomposed, lost…and yet everything references it.
Mécaniques Discursives is like a parenthesis between two epochs:
Gutenberg’s and Big Data’s. By contrasting the oldest form of image
reproduction (woodcutting) with the most recent digital technologies,
the installation straddles centuries and contracts time.
