Cutting Through the Past

In Cutting Through the Past, 1993, five doors that bear the signs of time are installed on a platform. Their humble nature suggests a domestic environment, within which private stories unfold. A pointed metal rod is positioned horizontally at the center of the platform. Activated by an electronic motor, the rod completes a 360-degree rotation, touching each of the doors and carving its tip into them with a light but cruel gesture. Rich in erotic implications, the movement also evokes a situation marked by conflict, in which the relationship between the parts in play implies their progressive destruction.