by Patrick Javault
by Tom Morton
By Patrick Javault
by Zoé Isle de Beauchaine
by Juliette Amoros
by Olympe Lemut
by Jim Quilty
by Patrick Javault
by Madeleine Mathé
interview by Zoé Paula
by Marie Maertens
By Emmanuelle Lequeux
Ni Haifeng, signs and codes
This could be an incomprehensible, encrypted language. A litany of numbers and symbols, it invades several walls of the gallery In Situ. It is in fact a self-portrait of the artist Ni Haifeng, who produces a magnificent exhibition. The Chinese artist, based in Amsterdam, searched through the digital depths to find the lines of code that encrypt a photo of his face. 500 pages of code, which he writes by hand, from exhibition to
exhibition, in a process that seems to be without end. Language is also at the heart of another installation, equally as strong. Recto is a wall of books, from all walks of life; verso, a wall of immaculate sheets, on which the artist projects a video. You see his hand gently stroking the paper, then writing long lines of numbers. A parable for the vertigo of the empty page, or a dream for free expression? A thousand readings can apply to this little library.