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Hôtes is inhabited, as Paulo Wirz’s work seems to indicate, already from its title. The word hôte in French expresses the notion of reciprocity inherent to hospitality, referring both to the host and to the person who is hosted. But when we look at these symmetrical, rectangular structures, these strange gardens full of weeds held in by charred wooden planks, in what kind of a state of hospitality do we find ourselves? Who is welcoming or being welcomed? There is an enigmatic presence situated within an ambivalent hospitality whose laws remain unknown? At the center of each of these large, slightly raised chests, dug into the material tufted with an accumulation of cut plants, is a parallelopiped-shaped formwork made up of mirrors, the size of a bathtub or a coffin, reflecting shiny, red highlights. Glasses and bottles rest on the glass panes, which have been painted to produce this color effect. The mirrors and the radiating vermilion background color...More
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Hôtes is inhabited, as Paulo Wirz’s work seems to indicate, already from its title. The word hôte in French expresses the notion of reciprocity inherent to hospitality, referring both to the host and to the person who is hosted. But when we look at these symmetrical, rectangular structures, these strange gardens full of weeds held in by charred wooden planks, in what kind of a state of hospitality do we find ourselves? Who is welcoming or being welcomed? There is an enigmatic presence situated within an ambivalent hospitality whose laws remain unknown? At the center of each of these large, slightly raised chests, dug into the material tufted with an accumulation of cut plants, is a parallelopiped-shaped formwork made up of mirrors, the size of a bathtub or a coffin, reflecting shiny, red highlights. Glasses and bottles rest on the glass panes, which have been painted to produce this color effect. The mirrors and the radiating vermilion background color...More
