The White Sail, 2022
5.06, Defense’s underground, Paris
instalation, exhibition
veil, white line
6 x 3 m
A company of young artists from Cergy found a secret passage to a technical room subway at the Defens metro station in Paris. It turned out that the whole underground space is created as labyrinths up down, right and left. It consists of narrow passages and holes without light, open and spacious rooms with high ceilings and ventilation passages. A white flag sewn by me in a week with from old silk fabrics found in second-hand stores, decorated with my poetry about emigration and love for the homeland and the world. Outside are the working offices of retailers, while underground a group of French artists have created a parallel world full of lively and urgent experiences. Sewn in white threads as a well-hidden deception. I wanted to convey our company's desire to take over an unknown and closed space, our sneers at the technical workers who are unaware of our existence, our momentary victory over the world of money and power. We put on a one-day exhibition of anarchism in the underground.