Je Respire (avec Duchamp), 2016
- Medium
- Vinyl flagging tape, painter’s tape
- Dimensions
- Site determined, dimensions variable
- Accession Number
- 2016.20
- Credit
The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
Purchase with funds provided by the Director's Council
Feher’s Je Respire (avec Duchamp) is made out of pink flagging tape, a material easily found in hardware stores and commonly used for surveying. With dimensions that are relative to the site it is exhibited in, the work is made anew for each presentation by attaching strips of flagging tape to the ceiling with blue painter’s tape.
The title, which translates to “I breathe (with Duchamp),” is an homage to French artist Marcel Duchamp, who famously professed, “I like living, breathing better than working . . . my art is that of living. Each second, each breath is a work which is inscribed nowhere.” Like Duchamp, Feher was famous for transforming ubiquitous objects and materials into art. Here, the hanging ribbons gently twirl, flap, and flutter as air circulates or viewers walk past, breathing, as it were, in concert with the room and making that breath visible.