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Thomas Bart
Sounds and Lights
Installation — Public space
A building unoccupied at night, somewhere along the route, and yet behind some of the windows lights, street lamps, television screens suggest life inside the building. At the same time, sounds also evoke a hypothetical presence; here a couple is dipping, there a reception is in full swing, elsewhere someone is vainly trying to negotiate a contract in chaotic English...
The effect is very discreet, and all the more disturbing. At first sight, we are in front of a "normal" building, but as we get closer, we perceive a kind of distortion in this simulated life.