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Scene I: Heavy Rain

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Marcel Broodthaers

비: 텍스트를 위한 프로젝트 La Pluie: Projet pour un texte | 1969 | 2’
Courtesy Estate Marcel Broodthaers

In La Pluie (Projet pour un texte) (Rain [Project for a Text], 1969), Marcel Broodthaers sits at a small table in the rain attempting to write. As the downpour intensifies, water spreads across the page, dissolving the ink before the words can fully form. The gesture becomes quietly absurd: the artist persists even as the rain renders writing impossible. Drawing on Broodthaers’s background as a poet, the work transforms writing into a visual action and a poetic gesture. Language, usually a tool for constructing meaning, is gradually undone by the elements. Presented within the Scene 1: Heavy Rain, the work reveals rainfall as an elemental force that interrupts human intention, exposing the fragile relationship between thought, expression and the natural world.

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Marcel Broodthaers was a Belgian poet, photographer, filmmaker and artist whose work moved between literature and the visual arts. He began his career as a poet, publishing texts often illustrated with his own photographs. In 1964 he turned decisively toward the visual arts with an exhibition at Galerie Saint-Laurent in Brussels, where he embedded unsold copies of his poetry book Pense-Bête in plaster, transforming the printed page into sculptural form. Broodthaers worked across numerous media including film, photography, drawing, print, artist’s books, slide projections and installation. Throughout his practice he examined the unstable relationship between language, images and systems of meaning, often questioning how cultural institutions construct value and authority.  In 1968, he opened his own imaginary museum in his home: the Museum of Modern Art, Department of Eagles, which continued with various sections in different venues until 1972.