Robert Filliou
(c)image: M HKA, Courtesy Private Collection, Brussels.
8 Measurement Poems, 1966
Mixed Media
, 191 × 7.5 × 3.5 cm; 180.5 × 5 × 8 cm; 182 × 6 × 3 cm; 181 × 4.5 × 3.5 cm; 175 × 4.5 × 4.5 cm; 92 × 4.5 × 8 cm; 77.5 × 6 × 5.5 cm; 79.5 × 5 × 6.5 cm
8 wooden sticks of different length with various objects
Excerpt of the conversation between Robert Filliou (RF) and Irmeline Lebeer (IL), Flayosc, France, August 1976.
Some of the objects are due to mere measurement. I thought of measuring things according to the criterion of the moment. For example, my height is of sixty-odd tomatoes, and I am 111,225 Copenhagen–Paris train trips old. The metric system itself, of course, can contribute to this identification.