But it was not about some subtle moyenâgeuse and new torture. Fred, the alive "hammer", is brought out stiff by the sharp cold, but indemne, of his strange prison.

And to trust to have, with the other members of the formation "Rosa + Crvx", a group of artists out of the commun run, concluded what it calls an artistic "performance", i.e. a transitory action, implying the body of the artist in a setting in scene intended to be realized only one and single time. And this time, as any work which wants to be art, the setting in scene had a "title": "Sets of Irons".

The device set up in Saint-Ouen, and which could be seen during the exposure of work of the pupils of the Art schools which was held there recently, it is, explains Olivier Tarabo, 

the originator and creator of the strange object, a "musical instrument living", whose heart is the artist locked up in the odd iron cable car one meter in diameter. The players of this instrument, they was the two "officiants" - vêtus a little like samouraïs, very full trousers and naked feet - which drew on a cord twenty-two times, to move away the cage from the gong, before all releasing so that this cage will strike this gong.

One was certainly not in the cellars of Gilles de Rais and Saint-Ouen is not Tiffauges. But under the solemn vaults of the transept, in front of the small crowd of about thirty people, when the "torture victim" was introduced into his cage and that the blows violent one started to resound in the church, the Angel of Odd, for one moment, settled at Saint-Ouen.

The odd one, or its impresson, it is often easy to create. There, there was in addition to ingeniousness, and one can, why not, pay homage to the actors of this surrealist sequence to have, it is already not so badly, organized this small madness so well, frankly rejouissante.

Paris-Normandie January 18, 1986