Jean-Baptiste GANNE 

El ingenioso hidalgo don Quijote de la Mancha 2005
Vue de l’installation durant la X biennal, Istanbul, 2007

In one of the shop at IMC is read in morse code with a red lamp, El ingenioso hidalgo don Quijote de la Mancha of Cervantès. The continuous reading of the integrality of the book will last nearly two months. This red-light reading is a monologous talk facing the world. But It is also a way to use the empty shop turned to an exhibition space as an amplifier. The white walls are only use for the reverberation of the light, and the windows open it to the mall. The shop becomes a tool for language instead of being a space to show or work. In this mall where people works, one of the shop will work on its own.

Post Scriptum : And then, you may ask why the « Quijote » ? And Pierre Ménard (through Borgès) would answer : el « Quijote », aclara Menard, “me interesa profundamente, pero no me parece ¿cómo lo diré? inevitable.

El ingenioso hidalgo don Quijote de la Mancha 2005
Vue de l’installation durant la X biennal, Istanbul, 2007
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