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This work evokes the memory of the artist’s childhood home, in homage to Eugène Ionesco’s play of the same name
Kinetic installation Le roi se meurt is a kinetic installation that evokes the memory of the artist’s childhood home. A tribute to Eugène Ionesco’s play Le Roi se meurt, in which a monarch learns one morning that his death is imminent, the installation anticipates the disappearance of a discreet witness to the home: the living-room chair. It reinterprets its everyday gestures one last time and confronts its approaching end. In a partial reconstruction of the living room, this familiar object is transformed into a suspended sculpture animated by a system of cables and motors. Memory becomes machine and is placed under tension by technology. The sequence, which loops repeatedly, allows the chair to make itself heard one last time. Félix Côte’s work seeks to resist the obsolescence mechanisms of contemporary digital industries. In his installations and videos, he brings technology and intimacy into play by repurposing elements of domestic furniture. Doors, chairs, and old printers are placed under tension by computational logic. 1 1 Computational thinking is concerned with problem solving, system design, and even understanding human behavior. With the support of the Fresnoy, Studio National des Arts Contemporains and the Héxagone, Scène Nationale Arts et Science. With the support of the Conservatoire Municipal Charles Münch
Source: paris.fr — photo: © Félix Côte, Le roi se meurt, installation, 2025, production Le Fresnoy