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White Noise



The accumulation of all sound frequencies is described as “white noise”.
The sound produced by the "snow" effect on a disturbed television is a good example of white noise.

Here, the exhibition opens on a rather “dark noise”, the one of Spin, a cement mixer in which plaster prickly pears deteriorate themselves, while others await their turn on a cart. This installation features an organized waste (the cactus is an omnipresent symbol in the Israeli-Palestinian culture)...

Leaving this din, we go upstairs, where Blind Test, a series of 25 white on white cuts-out, hangs as a cloud. We try to recognize those shapes, which are nothing else than security furniture from various countries. Just like those suggested shapes, the organs of control and restriction has melted themselves into the landscape of our ultra-controlled Western societies...

In the video White Line, Mareschal takes up a gesture of Land Artists – to draw a line in a landscape – tinting it with a political connotation. Here we hesitate regarding the status of the protagonist of this performance directed in the Palestinian village of Wallajeh: is it an artist or a worker drawing a line in order to build a fence?

Finally, White Noise, which gives its title to the exhibition, suggests to arrive, by successive layers of aggressive sounds, to a white noise, relaxing alternative to the shambles that invades the gallery (the cement mixer!)

The exhibition offers a distanced and poetic vision on security excesses of the over-policed Western society and on its human consequences.

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