JEZEBEL : TRIPTYCH + PROJECTION

The installation concerned here, follows from the lecture entitled ‘A register of Wording’, subtitled ‘Defenestration’, that I gave at the Technion University in Haifa, April 2013.
Hollow tubes are hung within a cube of 3x3 meters. This is done in accordance with 3 patterns being designed. The image goes back to my childhood: playing between the bedsheets being hung from a clothes-line. Or put it more neutral : bedsheets moving in the wind.
The module at stake is being tilted under an angle of 30°, thus leans on one point as a consequence of which one can enter its space. References here are ‘de Boompjes’ of Piet Blom, and the Brussels Atomium [...]aiming at the dynamics of these projects. The effect we desire however is as much visual, tactile as sonorical. The visitor leaves a tinkling, tremling trace behind when he or she disappears between the screens.
But there is more to it.In English one has the word ‘belfry’. Similar to bells in a tower these individual metal tubes can bear inscriptions. A bunch of well chosen passages allude to ‘the register of wording’.Some wit sits in the so-called triptych. The three upper patterns, from which the tubes are hung, are of a simple ‘abstract-figurative’ set-up. We have given these frames, as well as their respective projections - that are more or less being steered by the degree oftilting of the cube - a number of titles. Comparable with the Way of Stations (of the Cross) in a catholic church, our triptych tells a story in sequences also.However we are lead here by the adventure(s) of ‘Jezebel’ (see text enclosed). She forms the central image, with at the right of it, the image ‘the crown/the crowd’, at the left the image ‘the scream’. ‘The oblique/the cross’ and the ‘defenestrated figure’ form the images toward the bottom.The image on top, we call ‘other lines of flight/lingering’.