Palaispopeye

5 motors for 5 rotating platforms, wood, inkjet print on paper affixed to the wall, 270 cm x 300 m²

Palaispopeye features a labyrinth of fixed and movable partitions covered—with wallpaper—with a photographic image of the set from the film Popeye, directed by Robert Altman on the island of Malta, covering a total area of 300 square meters.

The rotating platforms, scattered throughout the space, guide the visitor from one room to another, directing their path and confronting them with fragments of mural images that try in vain to regain their unity as the movable and fixed walls intersect and as the visitor moves through the space.

Palaispopeye brings together film editing techniques, theatrical set design, and the visual practices of photomontage. These spaces where images are crafted come together and fall apart, as if to invite the visitor to step behind the scenes and thus question the paradoxes of the image.

With Palaispopeye, there would always be something that eludes the creation and interpretation of the image.

Larys Frogier,  Alexandre Perigot :Palaispopeye,  Museu Coleção Berardo,  Lisbonne ; La Criée centre d’art contemporain, Rennes ; Cneai, Chatou, 2008