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    "There are no tyrannies that would not try to limit art, because they can see the power of art. Art can tell the world things that cannot be shared otherwise. It is art that conveys feelings."

     - Volodymyr Zelenskyy, the President of Ukraine 

    Jan Fabre

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    (c)Angelos bvba, photo: Max Ratjen
    Parrots and guinea pigs, 2003
    Jan Fabre
    Performance , 00:30:00

    20.3.2003
    Paris, L'Arche éditeur

    On the twentieth anniversary of the collaboration between Jan Fabre and his French publisher  L’Arche the artist conceives a performance in the publisher’s shopwindow in the Rue Bonaparte. The underlying theme is ‘Everyone is a Belgian guinea pig’. 

     

    'Performed a poetic action
    in the shopwindow of my Paris publishers:
    'Every Belgian is a guinea pig and a parrot'.
    (The glory of experiment and repetition was in
    power.)
    I found sand in the desert
    and my repetition told a secret
    out of a mirror without an image.
    (For Marcel Broodthaers and Freddy De Vree.)

    (Jan Fabre, Paris, 20 March 2004)

     

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