Chambres d'amis

Résumé du livre

"Intriguingly titled U+0018Chambres dU+0019AmisU+0019 --U+0018guest roomsU+0019," or, literally, U+0018friendsU+0019 roomsU+0019-- the show places art in 58 houses belonging to everyday townspeople, carrying the work outside the separate universe, the total institution, of the museum, to bring it within the private zone of the private home, an asocial place insofar as itis removed from the public arena. (...) His [HoetU+0019s] project takes the exhibition structureoff its hinges, goes beyond the limits of the frame and spills over, whole, into an interior. Art here no longer offers a mirror or a window, nor constitutes the privileged sign of a choice, but is an actual, provocative presence, confirming its difference both from the museum space, which has lost its sanctity, and from the contextual frame in which the object serves as a fetish." --Pier Luigi Tazzi, Artforum, September 1986.