VIDEOBAR #50 : Balcony

The chimeric oration

It is because we are here – Pierre Levchin seems to be telling us -, in the living of an ever-changing representation that we commonly call the present, that our existence is in fact only a part of this illusory everydayness (and reveals it!) because it suggests, in contrast, an obscurely familiar elsewhere that escapes us and even flees us. Unless we persuade ourselves to be one day forever lost through the uncounted time of the intoxication of this space lived but fixed in its deceptive and infinite expansion. Image and sound would be one and the same and would then only be a dystopia that refuses to recognize any legitimacy.
Levchin and Glass project us into a time that necessarily preceded us from all eternity and where we are today ontologically unable to situate ourselves as well as to abstract ourselves because we finally exist through it, through its hypnotic images with no other object than their own unjustified, unacceptable, unsurpassable presence. This transgressive virtuality precedes us and pursues us, possesses us and expels us from our own being. We find ourselves finally outside of ourselves, without goal, obstinately resolved not to let anything appear of this forward flight which is exhausted in repentances and unceasingly reborn from its successive collapses. We finally realize, like Yannis Ritsos in The Monstrous Masterpiece, that “perpetual motion crosses immobility”. A perpetuum mobile whose exponential self-sufficiency writes its finitude on this horizon which observes us through this psalmody of the oblivion. The man would be consequently not other thing that this “divine absence to himself” suggested by Paul Valéry and put in space by the lines of flight of Pierre Levchin.

Roland Duclos.

Pierre Levchin

Nourished by the world of the spectacle, Pierre Levchin, artist, knew how to put his assets of technician at the service of the multidisciplinary creation. His passion is to translate the color of images and sound through technology.