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"Oeil de Poisson" means "fish eye", and is the french term for a peephole, but also signifies a sort of reflection unto infinity, or mise en abyme. When, in 2019, I was first invited to develop a new work for the artisti-run centre l'Oeil de Poisson, the office was filled with half-packed moving boxes. I was informed that the gallery was about to temporarily move out of its building because of impending renovations. This planned move never took place, but in the intervening years between the beginning of the project and its exhibition, multiple structural interruptions intervened in planning and pursuing the project. These included frequent staff turnover, global pandemic, impending, but never actualized moves, etc. These created layers of confusion about the gallery's fixity, permanence, identity, and emplacement. My work, also entitled l’Oeil de Poisson, took the form of a publication and an exhibition that reflected and amplified the underlying dislocation of the gallery from its identity.