Franz West

Since the end of the 1970s, Franz West has been designing works that are of the order of sculpture, furniture and utilitarian objects. Entitled Passtuck, objects of transition, these hybrid and organic works only exist insofar as they are used by a third party. They then become the equivalent of physical and psychological prostheses. These plaster casts have gradually given rise to monumental pieces in painted aluminium intended for the public space, indoors or outdoors, which the artist considers to be "a comfort zone".

In 2005, he responded to the invitation to exhibit at the Abattoirs - Musée Frac Occitanie Toulouse in the vast room known as "Picasso" with an original creation. Agoraphobia shows a sort of spiral or Moébius ring, irregular in its design as well as in its surface, like a root or a giant bramble that has grown in immaculate space. Agoraphobia being a form of dizziness, Franz West thus gives a concrete reality to the sensation of vertigo through an astonishing mental excrescence.

Produced by le Printemps de septembre in 2005, public commission from the Centre National des Arts Plastiques and coproduced by the City of Toulouse