This French Language publication functions as a palimpsest: constructed on the reprint of the first French translation of Brian O’Doherty’s influential book Inside the White Cube, it superimposes reproductions and commentaries of Yann Sérandour’s work.

Yann Sérandour’s interstitial and mimetic proposals stem from pre-existing works or publications, whose meaning and problematics are thus reactivated.

Inscribing himself in a conceptual heritage, the artist is prolongating historical gestures or manifestations by infiltrating and parasiting them.

This practice of détournement is a way of reviving the (sometimes latent) stakes and significations of appropriated elements, as well as a way to interrogate their historical, political, and aesthetic dimensions.

Published in the Christoph Keller Editions series.

French text.