Shot in the dungeon of an abbey of the Middle Ages in Belgium, famous for having inspired the prison of Victor Hugo's Les Misérables, the project METANOIA reflects on incarceration. A video of more than two hours accompanies a confined man, who interacts with the light, the stones and the dusty ground of his cell. The distended time of the video invites the viewer to co-inhabit this dark, cold and damp space with the performer. At the same time, there are words being projected on stones in the exhibition room, fading in and out simultaneously. These words, drawn from Michel Foucault's book Discipline and Punish, are combined and recombined randomly through a software, forming synthetic ephemeral poems.
