100 collage-poems Claude Closky

As part of its “Artist at Work” program, Adhex invited Claude Closky, winner of the 2005 Marcel Duchamp Prize, to create an in situ installation at its Chenôve site. The artist installed ten poems from his series 100 collage-poems: eight within Adhex and two in the City of Chenôve. Words in collision Claude Closky’s poems are composed from newspaper headlines, brought together and made to collide. By shifting and overlapping meanings, these fragments of news become verses with open interpretation, inviting each viewer to read, re-read, and reconstruct their own meaning. Large-scale, in situ work Printed at large scale, the poems are directly pasted onto the walls, like posters. The shapes they create, lines, blocks, silhouettes, oscillate between the organic and the mechanical, echoing both industrial precision and the freedom of language. The works are encountered along everyday pathways: outdoors and in interior spaces.

Bringing people to the center With 100 collage-poems, Adhex continues its ambition to open the company to artistic perspectives and to create moments of encounter between teams, visitors, and contemporary art. The project is also a reminder that at the heart of industry, there are words, ideas, and people. Adhex warmly thanks Claude Closky for this intervention and all contributors who helped bring the installation to life in Chenôve.