Ballade Pour Une Boite De Verre (A Ballad for A Box of Glass)
As part of Fondation Cartier’s 30 years, an electronic bucket roams around an empty room. Every so often, a surprising drop of water falls directly into the bucket.
An installation from Diller Scofidio and Renfro, New York based interdisciplinary design studio, in collaboration with composer, David Lang and sound designer, Jody Elff. The piece creates a dialogue between the museum building (designed by Jean Nouvelle) and the sound. Every movement is perfected, with every action having a consequence in the complex set up. Everything rests upon the reliability of the sound to the drop from the building, creating equilibrium.
The bucket is accompanied by a large screen, which hangs towards the floor, from waist height. Visitors are encouraged to use low chairs to get underneath the screen and watch the colourful image, which is a real time view from the bucket. Each drop creates a ripple, the image ever changing and constantly in motion, creates a relaxing final realisation in the installation. The large space used complements the journey you go through understanding the link and discovering new aspects to the installation, you have to walk around and get involved to fully gain a perception of what it is you’re viewing, making the piece powerful on many levels.
