Céleste RogosinBraid the Kinks from your Mind

Braid the Kinks from your Mind is an installation created for the “Night of the Museums” at the invitation of Laure Prouvost at the LaM museum in 2021. Produced in situ with two Tourcoing residents from Gabon and Nigeria, the piece recalls the tragic fate of the naive African-American artist Franck Jones - featured in LaM’s collections and sentenced to life imprisonment for murder at the Texas State Penitentiary in Huntsville.

Between action and immobility, aestheticism and radicalism, the chair here refers to physical and psychological confinement, a fate sealed in advance and the impossibility of escaping other than through imagination. A metaphorical narrative unfolds around the issues of imprisonment and possible forms of resistance, since weaving historically refers to a secret language of resistance and signs of emancipation. The title “Braid the kinks from your mind” refers to the reality of imprisonment while evoking a form of resistance.

Following on from Clear Jail Minotaur, which explores the links between confinement and technology, the two works resonate and respond to each other, offering a ubiquitous, fantasised vision of resistance through the imagination.

• Production Céleste Rogosin with the help of LaM museum
  
  
• CompositionChair (Giandomenico Belottin, 80’s, metal & leather), approx. 200 metres of cables, various materials, hose clamps, glass sea shells
  
  
• Collection Frac Grand Large, 2024