After my first book  « Niquer la mort »  ( Fucking death), I wanted to “represent” the car  used for carrying dead bodies ... so, I borrowed   black limousine  from  a friend.  We discussed that it was a good idea fro his Mercedes to be parked in the museum during  the winter months. Exactly what I needed for this project.  It could play the role of an official car, a diplomatic car, and at the same time, a hearse.... all the joints and  gaps were filled with putty, making it impossible to open the car and drawing large white lines around the car ... like scars ... the light produced a tropical  heat and a special brightness in the room ...

 

I reused the photographs shown in « Le milieu du monde » (The middle of the world) in Sète, the previous year. For economic reasons ... I wanted to sandblast the walls of the room,  to reveal  the bare walls and expose any traces of past . This was not possible for conservation reasons  ... The Modern Art of Lille Metropole museum had an important collection of modern art and  we could  not get sand the walls near the other rooms ...

 

1993 > Stops, Tussenstop, Stopover, Museum of Modern Art in the Community  city of Lille, Villeneuve d'Ascq. Curators: Joëlle Pijaudier and Catherine  Delvigne. November, 1993 

1997 > Another version of was shown during the Istanbul Biennial in 1997, curated by René Block, Guidelines