" Palindrome"

Synthetic hologram, 2023

40 cm X 30 cm

This hologram is made up of 668 images corresponding to as many angles of view. Like the animation, the sentence is a palindrome. It can be read from left to right or right to left : In girum imus nocte ecce et consomimur igni (We spin in the night, and here we are consumed by fire.). Over the centuries, this phrase, attributed to Virgil (70-19 BC), has been used in literature, films and works of art. Wars, climate change, cataclysms, forest fires - its meaning changes according to the circumstances.