TAXINOMIA UNIVERSALIS, Machines, Fioles et Horloges

BERNARD ROUSSEAU

TAXINOMIA UNIVERSALIS, Machines, Fioles et Horloges

  • Exhibition
© Bernard Rousseau, "Taxinomia Universalis, Machines, Fioles et Horlogues" exhibition, Galerie B-312, 1993.
16 October 1993 to 13 November 1993

This project, presented in the form of "mix-media" sculpture(s)/installation(s), is a reflection on the transmission of memory through words and things. It is a reflection on the transmission of memory through words and things. Based on a reflection taken from Michel Foucault's Les mots et les choses and the confusion of signs and languages traditionally expressed through the archetype of Babylonian utopia, this project aims more specifically to explore the possibility of inscribing a three-dimensional poetic place composed of structures/installations on the ground which, through a sort of mirror of analogies, would evoke this encyclopaedic project undertaken in medieval times, which was intended to be a universal compilation of all the knowledge reflected in the mirror of the world. This speculum mundi is a place where the matter of the world (made up in this case of industrial materials) is reflected as a language emanating, according to the formula devoted to the Middle Ages, then constantly reinterpreted throughout the Renaissance and the Classical Age (D'Alembert, Diderot) up to the present day (Foucault), from the Grand livre de l’Univers where the words of the world are inscribed. des appareils à lire et à déchiffrer la matière du monde, matter that carries marks, characters, numbers and obscure words. These devices, through a transit of fragments and traces, want to establish a relation(s) between matière(things) as langage and the langage (words) as matière