Christophe Muylaert

This installation presents two wall-mounted objects that mirror each other in form while diverging in material and genesis. The left object recalls a surrealist logic of displacement, in which perceptual certainty is unsettled through slight formal shifts and improbable combinations. Once capable of destabilizing the visible, this strategy now appears as a familiar operation whose disruptive charge has largely dissipated.

Opposite it hangs a white, 3D-printed form generated through AI-based modelling of the first. Between the two, a single label reads: Formerly disruptive art object. Detached from any fixed referent, the label renders disruption temporally unstable and conceptually unresolved.

Rather than opposing authenticity and simulation, the installation treats both as historical conditions subject to exhaustion. The AI-derived object does not revive the earlier strategy, nor does it supersede it. Instead, it exposes the difficulty of locating rupture in a cultural field where misdirection, recombination, and formal surprise have become habitual. What remains is not disruption itself, but its afterimage: a gesture that continues to circulate after its critical force has been spent.