Eridanus
Galerie Allen, Paris
23 March – 22 April 2017

From: Horvitz, David info@davidhorvitz.com
Subject: from 2:15 AM (losing the star without a sky)
Date: 22 March 2017 at 10:41
To: joseph@gallery.as

 

I want to write you about rivers. And about night. And I imagine this coming to you in the night. And maybe, winding its way to you, like how a river winds its way between two places.

tonight in paris
at allen galerie
59 rue de dunkerque 75009
at 7:07pm
my exhibition
titled eridanus
opens

it is named after
eridanus
the river constellation
that winds its way across the night sky

for the exhibition i walked across this city
(at night)

using the shape of eridanus as my route as if the river of stars was
overlaid on top of the city

(a river on a city built on a river)

and where thirty of the constellation’s stars would have fallen on the map i found 30 public street lights
and with a handful of city keys that i had managed to gather
i opened up the electrical access door to these lights

and turned the light off

a constellation, not of light, but of darkness
a street returned to the night
and maybe just maybe a few stars returned to the sky

(the exhibition opens tonight at the moment night begins.
for the duration of the exhibition the gallery will keep its lights off.)