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Joceline Chabot

La confusion des sens

In this installation, the artist has arranged various objects that the light makes glow from the inside and create a shadow theater from the outside.

  • Photo: Pierre Crépô
  • Photo: Pierre Crépô
  • Photo: Pierre Crépô
  • Photo: Pierre Crépô

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The Confusion of the Senses is the result of a research on the different points of view that one can have on a work of art and by analogy on any phenomenon. In exploring our approach to reality through the five senses, I came to the conclusion that sight was the culturally privileged sense for accessing reality, but that this primacy was not without fault. I interviewed blind people, ate in the dark with them, read the poems of blind Borges and the biography of Helene Keller. Words give substance to what our senses offer us to see. It is partly thanks to them that our eyes, our ears, our sense of smell, our touch and our taste are educated, transformed and refined.

- Joceline Chabot


Joceline Chabot questions the senses. Behind a semi-transparent screen, the artist has arranged various objects that the light makes shine from the inside and create a shadow theater from the outside.

Materials: shadows, wood, latex screen, variable light sources, various objects, blown glass, mylar paper, dried laurel leaves, scent diffuser, fur, plaster.