"Two Origins," 2002
Relational Architecture 7
Four 7kW Xenon projectors with robotic scrollers, 800 Duraclear transparencies and mirrors
800 m2 (projection surface)

Installation view at Printemps de Septembre Festival, Place du Capitole, Toulouse, France.

In this intervention the emblematic Place du Capitole in Toulouse was transformed by a projection of The Book of Two Origins, a 13th-century heretical manuscript compiling the theological beliefs of the dualist cathars. Once a vibrant community in several regions of Europe, the believers in the two origins of the Universe were virtually annihilated by the brutal crusades that gave birth to the Inquisition and France’s expansion. The texts are illegible since they are projected overlapping each other on the same façade from two distant projectors; only when passers-by block one text with their bodies is it possible to read the other text inside their shadow.

"Two Origins" attempts to connect disparate planes of experience, inviting people to discover texts that have been covered-up by history and intolerance.

References for this work include research into the “minor histories” that characterize European trends of pluralism and dissent.

Video courtesy of the artist and bitforms gallery nyc.

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