This exhibition is connected to the show Possession. It premiered in January-February 2019 during the International circus arts biennale at Friche de la Belle de Mai in Marseille, for the “Crossing Appearances” event curated by the 14:20 company.

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What if Lewis Carroll had not written Alice Through the Looking Glass? Years after the famous novel was published, Antonin Artaud claimed authorship and rewrote some passages entirely.

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How much does a work become “ours” when we appropriate it? In each installation, the world of Lewis Carroll shapeshifts, with Artaud’s “devouring” and “transformative” presence looming over it.

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Appropriation of a work, prefigurative plagiarism or perpetual transformation…? Isn’t metamorphosis inevitable when it comes to crossing this boundary and stepping through the mirror…?

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Design and construction by Violaine FIMBEL and Marjan KUNAVER (many thanks to Eduardo Felix and Marie Guillot)