wood, aluminum, PVC screens, 6 videos, 17 min, 324 x 293 x 211 cm
The video installation proposed for La Criée,Devils Island(2009), refers to Devil's Island, this rocky island off Kourou in Guyana, famous for his bagne in which many were detained French political prisoners including Alfred Dreyfus.
Czerepok filmed Devil's Island and then projected these images on a hexagonal sculpture that refers to another form of disciplinary power: Panoptic. Materialized as a prison building of circular form, Panoptic allows monitor inmates at every moment, without the inmates may know if they are observed, creating a feeling invisible omniscience. Designed by philosopher and lawyer Jeremy Bentham in 1870, Panoptics will be critically studied by the philosopher Michel Foucault in his bookMonitor and punishappeared 1975. Hubert Czerepok therefore took over the hexagonal module of the panoptic of the women's prison in Rennes to trigger in space of exposure a swirl of images and a rotation of the look which turns the Panoptic against itself.
