Ryoji Ikeda at Le Laboratoire
The form of Ryoji Ikeda’s show with mathematician Benedict Gross, V!=L, echoes the content of the works presented. Despite a paucity of works on displays, Ikeda conjures up our ambiguous relationship with the infinite; on one hand we try to symbolize it, on the other the task is inherently impossible. I really enjoyed the installation in the first room, where two oversized sheets of paper recorded on one hand, the third largest prime number discovered so far, and on the other, an irrational number that runs on for as many digits, until it is (necessarily, prematurely) terminated. This juxtaposition led me to meditate on the relationship between finitude and creation.
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