Jean-François Guiton
«L'albatros»

Self-referentiality is among the crucial formal aspects of a closed circuit installation. The 'Albatross', taking its title from Baudelaire's poem of the same name, plays with the genre in a light, humorous way. A kite in electronic flight has its counterpart in the potential movements over the floor of a real kite, kept lightly in motion by fans. The umbilical cord between the physical object and the immaterial image on the monitor is the video cable. But this closed circuit is short-circuited by the end of the cord being attached to the video recorder, also underneath the kite, representing the author.

Rudolf Frieling