THE Object
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With this edition, writing is again at stake. Made from a found Luna Park token, one side of which reads SANS VALEUR (VALUELESS), and the other side AMUSEMENT (FUN).
Patrick Carpentier offers us the opposite of something that screams worth, a solid silver jewel that glorifies non-value. This dandy detail is ironic. It’s an unexpected coin toss and a lucky charm that you carefully keep in the bottom of your pocket to lightly caress with your fingertips.
THE ARTIST
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Writing is always the starting point for Patrick Carpentier.
It is writing that brings to the fore a message of absence. Whether in his films, installations, sculptures, or performances, he constructs a simple narrative centred on the observation of language through antinomies.
It is by observing the unspoken that he questions speech, a silence seen as a counter-speech, a counter-sign, which itself becomes a sign in itself.
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