Un certain regard, 2026
Created at the Fondation des États-Unis in Paris, France for the Fulbright France Mid-Year Meeting at the George Marshall Center - Hôtel de Talleyrand in Paris, France.
Un certain regard investigates the ghosts that become embodied within the present moment. The works integrated throughout the rooms reflect on the passage of time and the necessity of understanding how each moment accumulates. Even when individual moments slip from view, they remain essential. Time is not erased but layered, its presence felt through accretion rather than visibility. Yet, a look through the window is an attestation of such gradual transformation, in preparation for the next glance.
The glass block sliding puzzle comprises three photos of the Place de la Concorde– one from the early 20th century, a screenshot from Google Maps dated 2019, and one from the present day. These similar shots will never align perfectly, rendering the puzzle unsolvable. Each intervention from the viewer creates a new image. Similarly, our versions of the past, present, and future rarely coincide. They are continually shifting and reforming.
The fractured glass engraving imagines the fountain designed by Guillaume Coustou for Louis III Phélypeaux– a fountain lost to the later construction of the Rue de Rivoli– while other engravings offer views of various windows in Paris.
Wooden panels evoke parquet floors, emblematic of French royal interiors. The mounted images depict details of the Hôtel de Talleyrand woven together with another façade in Paris, combining the seemingly disparate aspects of the city to form a continuity of various realities and histories existing simultaneously. Are memories not abstractions and fragments of our past through the lens of the present ?
The glass block sliding puzzle comprises three photos of the Place de la Concorde– one from the early 20th century, a screenshot from Google Maps dated 2019, and one from the present day. These similar shots will never align perfectly, rendering the puzzle unsolvable. Each intervention from the viewer creates a new image. Similarly, our versions of the past, present, and future rarely coincide. They are continually shifting and reforming.
The fractured glass engraving imagines the fountain designed by Guillaume Coustou for Louis III Phélypeaux– a fountain lost to the later construction of the Rue de Rivoli– while other engravings offer views of various windows in Paris.
Wooden panels evoke parquet floors, emblematic of French royal interiors. The mounted images depict details of the Hôtel de Talleyrand woven together with another façade in Paris, combining the seemingly disparate aspects of the city to form a continuity of various realities and histories existing simultaneously. Are memories not abstractions and fragments of our past through the lens of the present ?