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Ali Cherri
Corps et âmes
Inspired by the 24 glass vitrines that circle the historic rotunda of the Bourse de Commerce (once used to display merchandise destined for the trading floor), Cherri conceives each as a vignette for the 24 images that animate each second of cinema. Inside these tall cases, the artist animates his grafted sculptures (combinations of damaged artifacts and his own carefully hand-crafted completions) with handwritten lines revived from Jean Cocteau’s Le sang d’un poète (1930). The visitor’s circumambulation around the circular passage space completes the united works’ transformation into a sort of zoetrope.
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