Face à face: Fake and/or real snow.

By Philippe Parreno

Face à face: Fake and/or real snow. - © System Magazine

Gorky Park, Moscow, March 28th, 2013. Reality and fiction are a pair of trees that grow together, interwoven, each sustaining and holding up the other. It suggests a kind of mid-air transfer of strength, contact across a void, like the tangling of cable and steel between two lonely bridge posts.

Face à face: Fake and/or real snow. - © System Magazine

Gorky Park, Moscow, March 28th, 2013, a few minutes later inside the Garage Center for Contemporary Culture A derived sense of fruitful exchange, or reciprocal sustenance, of welcome offered, of grasp and interrelationship, of a slender envergure of bilateral attention along which things are given and received, still animating the world in its verb form.

Taken from System No. 1.