I made “Banners” in 2009 for the 50th Anniversary of the Guggenheim Museum New York, "Contemplating the Void: Interventions in the Guggenheim Museum Rotunda".
Beyond my project-participation, “Banners” is for me the occasion to assert what I think Art can do.   

1. Art - because it's art - is resistance. Art resists facts. Art resists political, aesthetical and cultural habits. Art, in its resistance, is movement, positiveness, intensity, belief.

2. Art - because it's art - has the power of transformation, the power to transform each human being.

3. Art - because it's art - can create the conditions of implication - beyond everything else.

4. Art - because it's art - is autonomous. Autonomy is what gives the artwork its beauty and its absoluteness.

5. Art - because it's art - is universal. Universality means: Justice, Equality, the Other, the Truth, the One world.

6. Art - because it's art - can provoke a dialogue or a confrontation from one to one.