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DEVELOPMENT OF CHANCE  1995

Strips of skin paper, battery-powered motor. 

Variable size

Words are written on strips of paper. Sentences are created randomly as you scroll.NR

 

"At the heart of Nathalie Rao's project, there is chance, so much experience and stakes to make (oneself) encounter the surprises of destiny.

On the strips of paper, we find words like, love, body, error, space, the unspeakable, work, dies, is born. The necessities of life are represented by the noun, the verb and the adjective meeting by chance. Words in the crowd. The coincidence is caused by the sliding of rolls of paper which turns around a metal bar.

The words are chosen because they are Nathalie Rao's main concerns, but completely detached from their contexts, exposed bare. Here, the artist experiments with the possibility of mastering the luck of nature."Extract text by Lili Ryu kim for the exhibition Ainsi de suite 3, CAC de Sète, curator Noël Tissier 1999

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  Personal exhibition view  x, Passages, Troyes,. Curator Fabienne Fulcheri 2001 © CAC Passages Troyes 2001

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  Detail view, typed text on strips of onion skin paper. © CAC Passages Troyes 2001

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