Twist & Tango

constructed situation, 2022

Twist & Tango consists of making the artist’s personal car freely available. Parked inside the exhibition space (a former police garage), the vehicle remained accessible to everyone for two months, its key simply hanging on the nearby wall.

Visitors could take it for a drive around the city or sit inside and listen to a recorded conversation between the artist and philosopher-sociologist Jan Masschelein on educational issues, which they had held while driving around in the car themselves prior to the exhibition.

A series of interventions carried out on and in the vehicle (a repurposed emblem, a pair of modified shoes, etc.) completes the installation. By opening the work up to real use and the unexpected, the project shifts the boundaries of the exhibition, blurs its temporalities, and makes the trust placed in the public a central theme.

Full presentation pdf available here (French)