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Escape Artists 2005
Plateaux repas, canette de bière Kronenbourg, citron, moniteur vidéo
Vues de l'exposition usr grps, RLBQ, Marseille, 2005
The last curve Ayrton Senna negotiated on the San Marino Gran Prix circuit before his fatal accident was marked by an oversized Kronenbourg banner spanning the track itself.
In Escape Artists this moments is looped to transform the curve itself into a circuit, saving Senna from death to plunge him into an eternal televison commercial.
The loop is presented on a television monitor overlooking a cafeteria self-service rail on which rest four identical grey platters, each bearing a can of Kronenbourg and a lemon.
This sequence has fascinated me for a long time. The onboard video offers us a privileged viewpoint of the race, placing the spectator's head right beside the pilot's and thus promising to put us at the heart of the action. However, as if to confirm that one always dies alone, the onboard camera cuts right at the point in which Senna's car veers out of control. The shared experience for the spectator stops there: he/she is projected into a parallel universe where the last curve repeats infinitely, forming a circuit of its own, eternity as a never ending television commercial for Kronenbourg.
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