L’esprit de l’escalier｜Treppenwitz
L’esprit de l’escalier (2019) is a site-specific augmented reality installation that engages the audience while they travel down the two flights of escalators at the Art Institute of Chicago.
“l’homme sensible, comme moi, tout entier a ce que qu’on lui objecte, perd la tête et ne se retrouve qu’au bas de l’escalier”
: “A sensitive man, such as myself, overwhelmed by the argument leveled against him, becomes confused and can only think clearly again at the bottom of the stairs.” - Denis Diderot in Paradoxe sur le comédien (1830)