South staircase
Olivier Toulemonde
On the stairs, first floor, west building
Video installation with sound
Stairs are intermediate spaces that connect floors to each other. They are therefore both obligatory and shared places of passage. They are also places of movement, of flow, with a very high population density at certain times of the day, at the precise moment of the inter-course, and a great void the rest of the time. Here, this double characteristic of flow and verticality is expressed by the crashing fall of some 600 ping pong balls.