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Ciclotrama 36 (labyrinthe)
SITE-SPECIFIC
Group Exhibition,
“Double Je”
CURATOR
Jean de Loisy
YEAR
2016
LOCATION
Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France
SERIES
DIMENSION
5 x 14 x 6 m
MATERIALS
220 m of nylon rope, 38 mm diameter and 14.000 nails
CREDITS
Photo: Aurélien Mole
ABOUT THIS WORK
Text by Jean de Loisy
Janaina Mello Landini presented one of her installations, from the Ciclotramas series, during a group exhibition at the Palais de Tokyo from March 24 to May 16, 2016. The work shared the space with “Golden snake”, an installation site-specific by Mathias Kiss.
Curated by Jean de Loisy and organised with the support of the Fondation Bettencourt Schueller, the show is based on the crime novel by Franck Thilliez, "Double Je" explored the relation between art and artisan-ship.
" 'I've committed a murder. It was with his right hand still covered with blood that the craftsman Ganel Todnais gave himself up to the police. It was 8:47 am and his hands shook as he passed the young inspector a damask steel dagger, whose haft depicted a snake's vertebras. The tip of the blade still bore the traces of the wounds of his rival, the famous Natan de Galois, some of whose pieces seemed to have been inspired by his own. A patrol was dispatched to the victim's home. The body was nowhere to be found.'
Visiting Double Je ( Duble I ) means exploring a crime scene especially conceived for this show by the writer Franck Thilliez.
The plot enables us to plunge into the craftsman's universe. The set reproduces a home and two studios. The furniture and objects they contain have been commissioned from artists, designers and artisans, and are often masterpieces of conception and execution. This staging dips us into the characters' subjectivities and invites the audience to act as much as profilers as investigators, amid the clues to this psychological thriller.
Whether illustrating the characters' daily lives or acting as props, the creative collaborations between disciplines are as much the subject of the show, as they are leads allowing this mystery of a corpse-less drama to be solved. But to do so, it is necessary to have an artisan's, artist's and policeman's obsession with details.
Jean de Loisy
CHAPTER 4, Room
MAZE
She started at the maze which it had taken Ganel just a few minutes to sketch out. It took up the entire page and looked devilishly complex. This man quite clearly lacked neither inspiration nor talent. At the center of the labyrinth, trapped between the walls, a large dark whirl could be seen.
- What's this scribbling, the Minotaur? ventured Mélanie, to pick up the dialogue.
- The Minotaur, the Monster, call you what you will. It's the thing hidden inside all of us and which is constantly trying to escape from the maze of the subconscious. And when it manages to et out...
Franck Thilliez
( extracted from the text Doble Je )

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