La vanité de Sisyphe (The vanity of Sisyphus) explores the history of conflicts between humans, ideas of US and THEM as discussed by visual artist and writer Yve Lomax, and the escalation of international tension that leads to the creation of nuclear bombs and nuclear tests.

The main part of the installation is a video piece of a still constellation [below] based on Theodore Adorno’s notion of constellation: 

ideas are to objects as constellations are to stars. That is to say, ideas are no more present in the world than constellations actually exist in the heavens, but like constellations they enable us to perceive relations between objects […] this is not to say the constellation is purely subjective or all in our heads. The stars in the night sky are where they are regardless of how we look at them and there is something in how they are positioned above us that suggests the image we construct of them. But having said that, the names we use for constellations are embedded in history, tradition and myth.

The audio accompanying the video mixes poetry, philosophy, history, science and mythology with my personal interpretation of texts by Rebecca Solnit, Maurice Blanchot, John Berger and Carlo Rovelli.