At the center of the installation Include Me Out (Et moi où suis-je alors quand tu me dis que tu m'aimes ?) [And where am I when you tell me that you love me ?] is a cutaway section of the trunk of a giant sequoia. The dimensions of the cutaway and its verticality mean that it is not possible for viewers to see the cross-section of the tree, on which the growth rings can be used to date events.

Visitors are invited to sit on a circular bench, below this map of time that escapes their gaze. The sequoia has become a monument - that which keeps memories - and time has become matter. It is for fantasy, and our memory, to weave the connections between the visible and the invisible, the repetitive structure of the rings and the constant upheavals of lives, the opaque mass of the tree and the plasticity of time.

The section of tree manifests the disproportionality of natural time, collective history and individual lives. It also maifests the spectacle of the impossible : that of a Time which would contain all times, and that of a death that would reveal the totality of a life.

It is tempting to mark our presennce on this map of time, whose concentric rings draw the passing of the years. Vain chiromancy : the rings of the sequoia no more reveal the absolute mystery of time than the lines of the hand. That mystery contains the secrect of our own lives. Nothing else about its elusive nature will be revealed.

Ultimately, we do not exist on this map of time as long as we are alive.

Include Me Out (Et moi où suis-je alors aund tu me dis que tu m'aimes ?) opens up a reflection on the time that we live through, and that lives through us. 'Here we are in the vestiges of what has already happened and in the vestige of the unknown things that will occur. We are in the timelessness of desire and death' (Pierre Legendre, 'Notification poétique du désir et de la mort', Positif, no. 263, January 1983).