How wonderful to have the work be ‘historicized’ in this retrospective of the 40 years of Faux Mouvement, the great art institution in Metz, France, by the brilliant Patrick Nardin. What an honor it was to show there with 2 of the best experimental artists working in Brazil since the 1990s, Edson Barrus, and Yan Beauvais, in 2005. in the book, the works are grouped thematically, and my ‘Beijos de Lingua,’ appropriately, is in the chapter, ‘Le mot, la phrase, l’énouncé.’
the video (which in Metz was a video installation), is an example of the text-based work that i have been doing since the 1990s, and it can be seen here: