The Moths
CRAC Alsace•Oct 13, 2024 — Jan 12, 2025
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Read The Death of the Moth aloud on a late summer evening on the banks of the Nérac Ponds[1]; begin this reading with the words “Moths that fly by day are not properly to be called moths”[2]; immerse yourself in the rhythm and accents of the multiple voices of the readers gathered for this collective reading; later, reread The Waves by yourself while learning about the first title that Virginia Woolf gives to her writing project, The Moths, as announced in her diary: “Now the moths will I think fill out the skeleton which I dashed in here: the play-poem idea: the idea of some continuous stream, not solely of human thought, but of the ship, the night&c, all flowing together: intersected by the arrival of the bright moths”[3].
The sound of waves can be heard in the distance; a moth bangs against the glass; it seems we can perceive the movement of waves on the ponds’ surface. In this exhibition, the artists and their works freely invoke The...More
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The Moths
CRAC Alsace•Oct 13, 2024 — Jan 12, 2025
Press release
Read The Death of the Moth aloud on a late summer evening on the banks of the Nérac Ponds[1]; begin this reading with the words “Moths that fly by day are not properly to be called moths”[2]; immerse yourself in the rhythm and accents of the multiple voices of the readers gathered for this collective reading; later, reread The Waves by yourself while learning about the first title that Virginia Woolf gives to her writing project, The Moths, as announced in her diary: “Now the moths will I think fill out the skeleton which I dashed in here: the play-poem idea: the idea of some continuous stream, not solely of human thought, but of the ship, the night&c, all flowing together: intersected by the arrival of the bright moths”[3].
The sound of waves can be heard in the distance; a moth bangs against the glass; it seems we can perceive the movement of waves on the ponds’ surface. In this exhibition, the artists and their works freely invoke The...More
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