Communication stations.

Electrical connections in hanks and balls, cables radiating anarchically from their supports. They can be found wherever the earth trembles, particularly in Japan. A manifestation of what, in our latitudes, goes on underground. But this appearance of inextricable knots is deceptive. Everything is perfectly organized, current flows and information circulates. These power poles, incomprehensible hubs, are certainly a reflection of the idea that a system, by dint of its complexity, takes on the appearance of chaos. From the top of these masts, the distribution of flows is arranged in successive layers that overlap or connect, as the case may be. Gilles Barbier makes regular use of this connective accumulation to weave his works together. These Communication Stations allusively objectify this principle, to the point of burying it himself.

C.S.