Wim Delvoye: L'ordre des choses - 1st take

A fascinating installation by the concept artist Wim Delvoye who installed a marble run through the Musée d'Art et d'Histoire in Geneva. Filmed on 26 Jan 2024, one day after the opening.
In the exhibition L'ordre des choses, marbles run relentlessly along rails, crossing through
spaces, walls, seventeenth century sculptures and twentieth century paintings along its path. The eye seeking to follow them engages in a constant traveling shot stopped by nothing. The marble follows only its own movement set in motion by the laws of physics and inertia. The same is true for the eye, which can but escape immobility - it cannot make do with looking at an artwork like a simple window onto the world, isolated from its context and framed by discourses. Like the marble, the eye penetrates objects, gets lost in invisible bodies and by chance remerges. In doing so, it feeds a dynamic that Wim Delvoye launches over and over again, from the trivial to the sublime, the excremental to the ornamental, the playful to the serious and the local to the universal.