What came out of the hat today.

If you want your ideas to be clean, , change them like your shirt.

F. Picabia

Over the past thirty years, Gilles Barbier has produced more than 1,000 statements. By “statement”, he means a short sentence that may or may not, in its interpretation, generate a text, a work, a series of works, or extract new versions of existing works. Often accompanied by a production protocol, the artist calls this device a Production Machine. According to what he says in his many interviews, these machines constitute a formidable access ramp to anything and everything; a veritable Cap Carnaveral for the “get out of your head” program.