More or less ambiguous spaces appear: under vaults, near arcades, framed by trees or columns, monastic interiors or landscapes populated by surprisingly shaped plants and animals, witnesses to atmospheric phenomena no less so. The light, alternately solar or lunar, generates extremely varied shadows and reflections that accompany or disrupt, glaze or warm, punctuate or disorganize the surfaces of this mysterious object, but deliver, at the center, the sought-after, hoped-for phantasmatic figure: the hidden face of the polyhedron. Entering Dürer's engraving to return with the AI this element that fascinated them both, the artists selected together 16 variations of the hidden face of the polyhedron that best conformed to the complex motivation of their common expectation: that of being surprised and enchanted.

Finally, as part of the Nuit Blanche program, three polyhedral structures, reduced to their fluorescent edges and freed from any figurative context, will be unveiled under a paradoxical Black Light, offering night-walkers yet another way of seeing and feeling the strangeness of these forms, and giving birth to a desire to communicate what these images do for them: what kind of impression?

Vincent Baby