Je t’aime

Je t’aime is a work made of 110 sheets, hand printed with ink and trasparina[1]. To every printed sheet a very small dose of this curious material has been added, sheet after sheet, so as the sentence Je t’aime disappears in the last one. The 110 sheets are put on a sheet of glass on which the exact same sentence has been carved into in transparency, and they are conceived to be sold separately at a symbolic price, so that in time only the sheet of glass should remain. It is a performative work.

The choice of the sentence is not casual. «I chose it because it is one of the most complex words in the human language»[2] The type of procedure recalls Roman Opalka’s 1965 ∞ pictorial research, in which paint fades as time passes, and at the beginning it isn’t possible to know where it is going to end.