R'évolution 
          des particules
           
          Maison 
          de l'Amérique Latine
           
          217 
          Bd. St. Germain 
            
          Paris, France
           
          March 
          3 - 25, 1994
           
  
          Press 
          Release 
         
         
         References 
          to cartography and the building of cities, are used to explore a fictional 
          atlas where context is transformed into metaphor, a poetics that moves 
          beyond the specificity of time and location. 
            
           "R'evolution 
          des particules" oscillates between utopia 
          and dystopia. The work springs from the interval between two texts, 
          the Myth of Creation and Paul Auster's "In The Country of Last Things". 
          The first tells the story of the origin of the world and humanity, the 
          second tells the story of gradual disappearance of a city and its people. 
            
           Fragments 
          of an order gone awry, find their position in a territory that sets 
          no particular cultural proscenium. Innumerable elements seem to advance, 
          retreat, float, hang, fall connect or disconnect, in a space permeated 
          by transient motion. (1994) 
            
         
         Solo 
          exhibition curated by Anne Husson and J. Leenhardt
           
          A 
          catatalogue accompanies the exhibition
           
          Installation 
          views
           
  
          linoleum, 
          wire and metal rods, balls, modelling paste, paper, fabric, electric 
          fans(400x730x300cm)
           
   
         The 
          installation is composed of small, sculptural elements that are the 
          result of indefatigable handiwork. This intricate construction plays 
          with representation by moving freely between abstraction and figuration. 
          Hundreds of concave figures 
           
        
        
 become livid humanoids that roam through a space that fluctuates between order and chaos. Wall-less habitation units, towers and other improbable constructions made of wire,
are linked to each other by a network of threads. A large fabric hangs over the installation and undulates under the wind of small fans attached to the ceiling. The only reference to solidity are a series of globes...worlds? planets?, that are none other than
inflatable plastic balls. 
        
 
          Video
           
          Video 
          stills from "First and Last"
           
   
          Works 
          on paper
           
          drawings 
          on paper (104cm x 80cm)
 
                 
           
            
        
   
        Excerpt 
        from the introductory text by J. Leenhardt: 
          
        
         Pat 
          Badani appartient à cette famille d'artistes pour lesquels la question 
          de la coherence du monde est devenue es sentielle. Jadis lorsque chaque 
          chose avait une place, et chaque homme aussi la sienne, le monde s'appelait 
          "cosmos". Tout avait sa place dans le grand ensemble qu'un oeil divin 
          saisissait d'un seul regard, cet oeil qu'encore les Lumières plaçaient 
          dans un triangle comme s'il figurait au fronton du temple du savoir. 
          Le monde était ordre.... 
         ...De 
          ce bric-à-brac qui constitue desormais notre unique et pauvre manière 
          de nous situer à l'égard de ce qui nous entourne et d'éprouver notre 
          situation dans le monde, pour reprendre le terme qu'affectionnait Jean-Paul 
          Sartre, elle a fait son théatre."... 
         
        Exhibition 
          plan
           
 
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