An installation paying tribute to resistance in all its forms—those that keep us wavering between utopia and dystopia, from the real to the ideal, on the cusp of coming transformations. The work gives itself to us as an extension of the thinking of philosopher Jacques Derrida, in "a diffuse temporality which is not the past, but an absent present that can affect the future."

For Le Nouveau Printemps, Pablo Valbuena has imagined a site-specific piece for the Monument to the Glory of the Resistance. Created in the 1970s, this unusual, underground memorial offers an itinerary that uses architecture, sound, projected light, geometry and sculpture to create "a total work of art." The proposition of the artist, a sculptor of diffuse matter, is to revisit the original Second World War notion of resistance in order to reactivate it in its current forms. This installation  suggests a spectral human presence, poetically sculpting in light and sound the fragile yet powerful voices of freedom.

With the support of Monuments de Toulouse, Toulouse city hall.

With the support of Monuments de Toulouse, Toulouse city hall.

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