Installation, Variable dimensions.
image© Frédéric Lefever
Collection: Collection Ellipse Foundation, Lisbon.
In 1996, these two pieces of weaving tools where shown at the exhibition La porte de l'Europe (les bourgeois de Calais). Calais is a place where lace has traditionally been produced since the nineteenth century through a system of punch cards with patterned holes instructing a sequence of operations.
The text hanging above the pieces gives an extra dimension to the concept of this artwork, comparing the automatism of the binary lace-making machines (perhaps the forefather of the computer) with the orderly jardin à la française.
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> Exhibition: La porte de l'Europe (les bourgeois de Calais). Galerie de l'Ancienne Poste, Calais, 09 March 1996 - 28 April 1996.
> Exhibition: Jimmie Durham – A Matter of Life and Death and Singing. M HKA, Antwerpen, 25 May 2012 - 18 November 2012.
> Ensemble: Jimmie Durham 1994 - 2012.
> Ensemble: Objects.