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The gaze and the sound.
Actually, this video is a real mystery for me.
All the elements of my future practice are already there.
I think this video proved to me that
"Now that you've done this, keep going. You can continue.
Why wouldn't you keep on going?"
The visual arts community was so welcoming to people like me.
If you have nothing at all, you can invent a world,
a unique poetic universe and reach people that way.
Yes, you can do it with installations that take up an
entire space, performances with musicians, sound components,
and lots of action, or with almost nothing at all.
I was interested in all musical objects,
which are also visual objects.
In my work, I used the record as basic material,
and the record player as a performance tool.
Generally, my tendency now is to work with sound in silence.
By taking out the sound, we see better.
Watching is doing.
Listening is doing.
That is what my work says.
My work is a way of staging the acts of watching and listening.
For me, an artist is a world.
And after, oh I don't know, a certain number of years,
the essential elements of that world are already in place.
And the artist spends the rest of his life refining,
developing and pushing the work further.
In the end, we artists all push things as far as we can.
But essentially, we remain locked in this world,
and in the end we die, and someone draws a circle around us
and says, "There - that's his world.
Raymond Gervais, that's it. The end."