IN PRAISE FOR ESCAPE

Suspended by two steel cables, a wall wavers.
Made of small, rusted, salvaged plates, it evokes brickwork, construction, enclosure. Yet here, the wall is no longer anchored to the ground — it floats, disconnected from any foundation. It protects nothing, separates nothing: it waits.

This hanging wall becomes the symbol of a fleeing body.
It resists nothing, seeks neither confrontation nor submission. It rises — not toward the heavens, but out of frame, beyond norms. It chooses escape as a survival strategy.

A direct reference to Henri Laborit, this "escaping wall" pays tribute to a fundamental, often devalued instinct: avoidance.
Here, escape is not about shirking responsibility, but about eluding imposed roles, social expectations, and confining structures.

Its regular voids, and the shadows they cast behind it, echo order — the order of a rational, gridded system, yet empty. This wall is not solid: it is perforated, porous, fragile.
It lets through light, vulnerability, and ambivalence.

In Praise of Escape is not a call for disappearance, but for the invention of an elsewhere.
A suspended space between the refusal to fight and the refusal to submit.
A space for those who choose to think sideways, and to live otherwise.

IN PRAISE FOR ESCAPE

Steel, cables, shackles

70.87 x 33.86 x 3.94 in

2014