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Slammed doors obscure our view but perhaps we can find a crack. Covering and uncovering, watching and being watched, voyeurism and narcism, these are the constants in Marcel Odenbach's repetitive wanderings in the past. Once again the struggle to clear up the relationship between official history on the one hand and personal history on the other hand, has to take place. Three vertical strips change the conventional frame into slits, which either show or do not. Paradoxically both the idea of completeness and incompleteness are thereby increased. (In the exhibit with the same name Odenbach reinforces this process by sharing the images between two monitors which can not be viewed simultaneously.) What is it the witness can or cannot see? A 'costume drama' in Versailles, Odenbach running away, a conversation in costume in a park and images of architecture and daily life. A monologue in the form of a dialogue between an old man and a young man, borrowed from Robert Musil. Gasps of tiredness, fear and lechery.
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Albert Wulffers
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Camera: Marcel Odenbach, Sound: Nicolas Joly, Music: Bach, Liszt, Gershwin, Simply Red, Bob Moses, Production: Centre Georges Pompidou, MNAM, With: Jean Pierre Daroussin, Claude-Antoine Leroy
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