Art Installation with Typewriter and La Fontaine Canvas, Paris

5 October 2017 · Paris

A vintage typewriter sits on a white plinth in front of a large painted canvas — a black silhouette of a man facing away, handwritten lines from La Fontaine's Le Corbeau et le Renard running across the pale ground. The installation pairs two writing instruments across two centuries: the mechanical and the painted hand. Text as image, image as text; the fable spills off the canvas and onto the plinth below.