Rien N’est Fini Tout Commence

“Poetry creates a field of analogies that teaches to resonate with beings and things connected with life. Poetry is heard when words are silent. Subjective reality is multiple, it opens up a field of possibilities to explore and create.”
– Extract from Journal imaginaire, Raoul Vaneigem, 2006

The installation Rien N’est Fini Tout Commence* is the fruit of our meeting with the Belgian philosopher Raoul Vaneigem whose thought invites us to stimulate our imagination through poetic and unusual situations. It is a meditation on our world at the frontier of a mutation.

I. Rien N’est Fini**
A Zone, in the form of a calcined forest with slender trunks is to be crossed, scattered among the stands of other countries. It transforms, opens its scope to all sorts of universes that sometimes seem to tend to absorb it whole and then regenerate it. For the forest the place of all metamorphoses and apparitions, fears and consolations, meditations and promises... This course is an invitation to cross the frontiers of the imaginary towards our subjective visions.

II. Tout Commence***
A Room, black surface and worn by fire, deposited among debris related to our job as scenographer, traces of its ephemeral essence, its so-fast obsolescence. Inside, the white walls contrast, in the center, a table covered with a miniature forest, intact.

Because from the ashes always reborn is hope.

* Nothing is finished everything begins
** Nothing is finished
*** Everything begins

Country/Region Belgium

Presenting Organization ATPS

Curator Christian Halkin

Curatorial Team Jean-Claude De Bemels, Vanessa Fantinel, Sophie Hazebrouck, Béatrice Massinger, Laura Erba

Artists Cyril Aribaud, Laure Hassel