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This treatment
in fact makes the material slightly matt and similar to human skin so
that those ears have an animal shape but also a human appearance. The
same marble block has therefore at least four different textures, suggesting
four different tactile values and evoking sensations suspended between
memory and surreality: one might think of little rabbits hiding behind
hedges so that only their ears are visible. It is not by chance that the
room chosen for the installation is an old mill now used as a cellar.
One could then imagine a sarcophagus which is also able to ‘hear’,
as if what is firmly closed in ourselves, apperently ‘marbleized’
as a childhood memory, could actually go on grinding, generating sensations
and determining our behaviour.
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