The (Dés-)inventaire is a dynamic installation that branches out over the course of a month. It consists of a reading machine that phagocytizes the artist’s library. Every day, the machine swallows books whose contents are immediately erased on a wall. Visitors move to the heart of this machination, tracing its daily metamorphoses.
The public is thus invited to witness the day-to-day ravages of the deconstruction of knowledge, and to feed it into the wall-dazibao.
The (Dés-)inventaire space is home to reader-author Alain-Martin Richard, whose transactions with the machine will also be engraved on the dazibao and broadcast in a progressive video loop.
On February 8, Richard will offer a performance in the form of a heroic reading of the world’s longest sentence. This sentence will then become the final residue of the erased library. The (Dis-)inventory is then completed, leaving the library bare and mute.