Le désordre est une condition d’ouverture prometteuse
et menaçante, organisant des rencontres improbables entre
des phénomènes de natures différentes. Ces figures
précaires et invraisemblables s’inventent à l’intérieur
des installations artistiques, où l’impossible seul
est principe de vie et de mouvement.
The principle of entropy
involves the exposure of close systems to an inevitable process
of dissolution and neutralization over time.
(En)Tropics complicate the totalizing implications of this principle.
Not so as to protect structures from the wear of time, but in order
to attend to that, which survives their breakdown. This working
concept evokes not an inevitable condition of inertia and vapidity,
but the
strange potentiality of the ruin to be turned away from its original
purpose or design. Whereas entropy posits the morbid certainty
of a static end, (En)Tropics heeds the monstrous life of the future.(En)Tropics
supplements and displaces entropic finalism by tracing its etymological
affinity with two other words-tropical and trope. All derive from
the Greek root tropos (“A turning”), and when thought
together as a constellation, they open onto a new poetic and political
terrain.