En boîte
2009.
Mixed media.
30 x 17 x 12 cm (12 x 7 x 5 in).

Conceived for the Parcels for the Promised Land exhibition, Kunstbüro, Berlin, Germany, May 2009, about “The Wall” in the required shoebox size.

When the box is open, one can see two similar phrases written in reverse order and enclosed within “walls” — but one phrase is addressed from THEM to US, when the other one is addressed from US to THEM. The text can only be red in the distorting mirror inserted within the lid.

Within walls
Reversed and mirrored text
The text can only be red in the distorting mirror
It degrades us but it also degrades them.
It degrades them but it also degrades us