Edgar Sarin and the French Artist Ryan H., in front of the Cercle de La Horla (Photo credits : Jovita Zavi)
First Chapter : Des Absents
Cercle de la Horla
16, rue du Vertbois 75003 Paris
October 23 – December 18, 2015Within this heavy breathing world of ours, there do exist some very particular projects; naive, genuine yet somehow scientifically organised projects, that attempt to give you an altogether different experience of what is already in front of you. The Paris-based Cercle de La Horla project—The Horla Circle—is one such project.
Orchestrated by the French Engineer Edgar Sarin, this project, beyond questioning the exhibition space itself, aims to blend together the space for showing and for creating.The crowd is dramatically involved in the exhibition, which inexorably offers another level of attention to the artworks—to consider them almost as sacred entities—and, last but not least, gives opportunity to randomness and coincidence. The first chapter of La Horla is what it will become. One simple idea is at the core of the project; for 56 days, “place nine different artworks in an room, and observe what happens.”
