Une machine désire de l'instruction comme un jardin désire de la discipline

Jimmie Durham

1996

Installation, Variable dimensions.
Materials: Wood, cotton thread, print on paper

Collection: Collection Ellipse Foundation, Lisbon.

In 1996, these two pieces of weaving tools where shown at the exhibition La porte de l'Europe (les bourgeois de Calais). Calais is a place where lace has traditionally been produced since the nineteenth century through a system of punch cards with patterned holes instructing a sequence of operations.

The text hanging above the pieces gives an extra dimension to the concept of this artwork, comparing the automatism of the binary lace-making machines (perhaps the forefather of the computer) with the orderly jardin à la française.

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