The labels on a sound system-CD, Tape, Tuner, Aux-are replaced with new ones: Love, Break-up, Friendship, Depression.ģ59. The narrative is reduced to a sequence of geometric paintings.ģ58. The top of each rectangle is aligned with where the corresponding paragraph started. The paragraphs of a novel are replaced by black rectangles whose surface area corresponds to the number of letters used in the paragraph. Places are photographed by their reflections in spit bubbles.Ģ47. A misty black ring against a white wall-trace of a motorcycle tailpipe.Ģ38. His testicles are two tiny globes: the one the earth, the other the moon.Ģ28. Landscapes, houses, animals, automobiles, supermarkets, books, news, images, scenes of family, love, war. Random video images taken from cinema and television archives are projected onto its surface from the inside. A dull glass sphere floats in the middle of a dark room. The ensemble is looked upon through a panoramic window piercing the wall.ġ81. Smaller parts of the wreck, also made out of kebabs are scattered throughout the valley, making visible the trajectory of the accident. At the far end is a crashed Airbus A 320 made out of kebabs. In an enormous hall lies a valley between two mountainous slopes made out of white Styrofoam. A labyrinth is painted in skimmed milk on a museum façade is destroyed in bad weather.ġ79. “POISONWOOD FAIRYLAND” is painted in orange block capitals on canvas woven from flax linen taken from a field peppered with poisonous plants.ġ43. The silhouette of a dog is cut out of a pornographic picture.ġ42. These drawings form the basis for the construction of four ateliers that are then photographed, the result showing four real versions of this fictive place.ġ13. The readers explain their visual interpretation to an artist, who draws the scene, dutifully complying with each reader’s amendments, in the style of an identikit. The atelier of Frenhofer, the painter in Balzac’s The Unknown Masterpiece, as imagined by four readers, is shown as slideshow projections onto the walls of a room.
The viewer has a chance of thirty-six out of a hundred million to see all ten nails in the same session.ġ10. The exhibition ends after ten throws of the die. The artist shows him the fingernail corresponding to the number on the die for as he long as the viewer wants. He is given a ten-sided die and asked to throw it. The exhibit takes place in the home of the viewer. Those on his left hand are painted with those on his right hand, and vice versa.
An artist creates ten paintings on his fingernails.
Keeping the shape that the cold surprised them in, they are exhibited in a refrigerated aquarium.ĩ5. Soap bubbles are blown into a space where the temperature is 100☌. Damages are classified by type: fire, flood, submersion, earthquake, shock, fall, collapse, bombardment, assault, vandalism, poor conservation. Once its destruction is complete, what’s left of a piece is rubble and ashes. Photographs catalogue an inventory of destroyed works. The eraser residues of all the students in a fine arts institute are collected for a year and reconstituted into a cube.Ĩ4. A book describes works that the author has conceived but not brought into being.ħ2. small gem from a writer of great talent and originality.-Scott Esposito"The Quarterly Conversation" ()Īn unflinching self-portrait.1. With the force of a set of maxims or morals, Lev?'s prose seems at first to be an autobiography without sentiment, as though written by a machine-until, through the accumulation of detail, and the author's dry, quizzical tone, we find ourselves disarmed, enthralled, and enraptured by nothing less than the perfect fiction. Beyond sincerity, Lev? works toward an objectivity so radical it could pass for crudeness, triviality, even banality: the author has stripped himself bare. Autoportrait is a physical, psychological, sexual, political, and philosophical triumph. In this brilliant and sobering self-portrait, Edouard Lev? hides nothing from his readers, setting out his entire life, more or less at random, in a string of declarative sentences. About the Book A work of autobiographical fiction recounts the author's life in a string of objective, declarative, and unrelated sentences.
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