"Si Poteris Narrare, Licet", the picture follows the line of sight

In Ovid’s metamorphosis Diana said the words: “si poteris narrare, licet“ when Aktäon surprised her while she was naked taking a bath. These words translate to: „if you can tell of something, speak“. We know that this was just evil irony because Diana had just punished Aktäon by turning him into a deer, an animal that is unable to speak, leaving him to his own pack of 50 extremely well trained hunting dogs. Bruyère’s installation shows us how these hunting dogs rip Aktäon to pieces and how Aktäon decays hounded and killed - unable in his beastlike stertorousness to tell what he saw.

On three levels Jean Michel Bruyere’s installation provides a view into a mythological panorama of images: on the upper level we become a witness of what price Aktäon has to pay for his arrogance wanting to discover the world of the goddess all the way into her nudity and on the lower level we can see Diana taking a bath. Behind her there is a panoramic landscape in constant metamorphosis. A nearly magical effect accrues from the installation by the method of the image projection which was chosen by the artist: by letting the clipping of the projector glide on the inner surface of the globe we are able to rip the images from the darkened half-globe bit by bit. Eventually we are able to realize the complete extent of the multimedia design of this ancient matter.