Interview

with Élisabeth Lebovici

 

 

It was during our first

Back in Paris, we firstly

 

At the start, we thought

In our catalogue Séries Américaines,

This discovery of painting was

As for “painting together”, there

 

In March 2000 we went

When we got back to

 

The term “tape” refers both

So at this point we’d

In the Snows, where there’s

Since then our project has

 

The motifs that interest us,

The image that spontaneously came

In Edges, on the contrary,

So it’s not by thinking

 

The difference lies in the

 

We generally start out with

We’re often criticised for making

In fact the problem of

Our paintings talk about the

 

In 2001, we started getting

 

It’s true that travel’s an

 

We worked in darkness. We

 

Those were the ones that

 

The idea of “house painting”

 

What we bring back from

 

We did around sixty Tapes,

 

In the Switches, the backgrounds

 

There’s always a reference to

When we work with adhesives,

 

In terms of perceived colour,

 

No!

 

[Laughs] Right! But let’s make

 

You could say that! But

 

We’re currently thinking about the

 

In the same way that

 

We often say that our

 

Between disciplines, there’s always a

 

We haven’t returned to painting.

 

september 2004

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