TOUT IRA BIEN

With "Tout ira bien", LEMME transforms itself into a beacon that subtly disturbs the balance of the Arsenaux garden. Through the accumulation of signal lamps in the exhibition space, Axel Crettenand creates a diffuse sense of alarm, evoking a latent danger that never fully manifests itself. This tension manifests itself as omnipresent visual stress and offers the audience a chaotic sensory stimulation.

With this gesture, the artist highlights the conditions of a contemporary society that lives in a permanent state of alert. He creates an environment saturated with signals, an irregular flow of information that enters into a dialog with Pierre Vadi's sculpture while altering the perception of the surrounding space. This intervention influences our understanding of reality by imposing a visual overload that goes beyond the scope of the work. The glass walls of the exhibition allow this unrest to penetrate to the outside, so that it also extends to the exterior space.

By staging a back and forth between reality and fiction, the artist sets up a system of mirroring that challenges the audience. The audience is encouraged to consider an abstract but plausible representation of death - not of the body, but of consciousness - which materializes through the gradual extinguishing of the lamps. The inevitability of the work is revealed in this irreversible process, which takes place in a form of resignation that will endure.

By reducing the form to the repetition of a single object, the artist questions the position of the viewer, who is both actor and witness to a tense world in which the alarm becomes a daily, unstable and uncertain rhythm, banalized by its persistence and normalization to the point of becoming almost invisible. Nevertheless, its omnipresence generates profound socio-psychological mechanisms that lead to a loss of critical distance. Beyond this flooding, the work invites us to let go through its announced decay: to pause, observe and perhaps return, because ultimately: "Everything will be alright".


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