RWZ (Reverse Zone World) - Zone monde renversé

Chaque geste interroge les frontières et franchissements du privé et du public, de l'intime et du partage. Chaque rêve devient le bien en commun. Chacun à son rythme, sans injonction. Lent, rapide, vers la fin ou au début de sa vie.

NOTHING AT ALL - MODES IDIORYTHMIQUES DE LA COEXISTENCE Exhibition by David Ryan and Jerôme Joy at Palais de Tokyo, Paris, 2016.

RWZ (REVERSE WORLD ZONE)
“Each gesture questions the borders and extrusions between the private and the public, the intimate and the shared. Each dream becomes common property. Each to their own rhythm, with no orders. Slow, quick, towards the end, or the beginning of your life.”

Reverse World (2015-2016) is a poem with inverted syntax. It turns randomly on six suspended screens, accompanied by sound sequences recorded in Ireland. The poem gives its name to this part of the exhibition, Reverse World Zone. The Clover Hunter and Jérôme Joy collected its traces during a journey. “The poem is always there, enclosed behind a grating. The mountain has become private.” Short videos reveal zones of sharing, welcome and generosity. For example, The Poem Plantation with Lettuces (2009-2016) gives rise to a “NaA” – acronym of Nothing At All – with black lettuces, while a different video shows the inhabitants of a hamlet, where the Clover Hunter’s shelter can be found, as they make a clover-shaped meringue. “A prison he could have comes to terms with. To end as a prisoner – that would be a goal for a life. But it was a cage with bars. Indifferent, sovereign, the world’s tumult flowed into the cage and flowed back, as though at home, the prisoner was actually free; he could take in everything, nothing outside escaped him; he could have left the cage, after all, the bars were yards apart, he wasn’t even imprisoned.” Franz Kafka 1926, Reflections on Sin, Suffering, Hope and the True Path.