The logic of stupidity

This installation reuses a principle dear to the artist's heart: anamorphosis. This mechanism allows an image to be reformed, or deformed, using an optical system; in this case, neon lights whose light is reflected by a pane of glass. The observer must be positioned at a precise point in order to observe the reformed image. By means of this anamorphosis, Miri Segal recreates the last words of this sentence. The words are deprived of all materiality and given a floating, ghostly appearance, perfectly echoing the meaning of the text itself. A famous quotation from Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream, this phrase, spoken by a fairy, comments on the stupidity of human quarrels of love. Ironically, the fairies become embroiled in these human affairs, demonstrating the futility and superficiality of the split that had occurred between these worlds. Here, the phrase acts in an interdependent relationship that unites the physical (or mortal) and immaterial (or spiritual) worlds. It is only when these two worlds come together that the sentence becomes complete and reveals its meaning to the viewer.