April 20th to April 27th
After One Year, photo and text, 2021
Once a year the white domestic paint that will gradually vanish outdoors, was to be refreshed, a layer of this vulnerable surface would accumulate the traces of passage by future visitors.
August 4th to August 11th
AUCIEL
Can lungs see air circulating curling waves
passing time of shallow intake
masked from pollen-bearing future
Day of Air will be celebrated soon
June 30 to June 7
AUCIEL
Fata morgana image of air
made of common fear
and cultivated desire
mirage that predict its end
without memory
June 23 to June 30
AUCIEL
Covering the large waters and earth
Air is invisible to the eyes
Feeling it inside is not enough
I need to perceive it as all unnotices
Seeing the air must be a civic longing
June 16 to June 23
AUCIEL
police cars frame it
on the way to order the pain
the neighbors offer meat, coffee,
hate and forge the shadows
the swell is changed rejects adding
through the leafy eyes
art by females with masculine stable blots
word jumps definition of end
POLYPHONIC MANIFESTO
AUCIEL
May 26 to June 2
AUCIEL AUCIEL
the dunes are bent by the wind
shaped by silence of looking away
lured by white cold anger
bleached into transparent delight
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May 19 to May 26
AUCIEL AUCIEL
The frame is moving it never stops
the direction is to the still sun
Potential shadow is immanent
waiting for the leaves to bud
May 12 to May 19
May 5 to May 12
What can a poem do to a desert
On the rive of the boulevards
Lonely on the empty stone
The vastness of confinement
The softness of neglect
It is not far away and it is not on Mars
It is right here
April 28 to May 5
April 21 to April 28
Ready for the stars
to communicate with the unknown
attracted by the possible surprise
to challenge creativity to new direction
Invited to the insides by the smallest in between
ignored mismatch as forgotten counts of empty clouds
remembering the beauty of the desert after the rare rain
But not before
Based in Paris, Esther Shalev-Gerz is internationally recognized for her seminal contributions to the field of art in the public realm and her consistent investigation into the construction of memory, history, the natural world, democracy and cultural identities. Her works challenge the notion and practice of portraiture and consider how its qualities may contribute to contemporary discourse about the politics of representation.
Esther Shalev-Gerz www.shalev-gerz.net