As a massive spinal column, Perpetua instabile is composed of mobile blocks piled up the ones on the others and subjected to a succession of destabilizing waves. In this artwork, first the artist questions his own body in its physical deficiencies, certainly, but beyond its failures, its falls. As a metaphor of the hesitation as well of the human weakness, his "machina infernale" veils and undoes itself according to the vicissitudes, according to the movements imposed by the instability of a base.

To question verticality is to question at the same time the perfectibility of the construction - and social construction this time: the vacillations of the system, its faults as well as its shortcomings... It is still to question the utopian dreams to build finally a better world, one day...
Because, if we can see first in Perpetua instabile weakness and deviation, and this as much as on the individual scale as societal, a greater attention to the postures that the column adopts leads however to another reading.

Structured in the manner of a theatrical performance, in three acts, the underlying programming is so made that this pile of vertebrae, from a slumped state gets up a little more by each new impulse, before falling back at the end of each act. In a perpetual quest for alignment, based on an external, ambient imbalance - this being underlined by the sound material which creates a kind of permanent alert - this piece gives to see the ambiguity of our human condition, and the struggle at work between the opposite forces of duality...