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"L'Oeil de Poisson," was the name of both the gallery and exhibition that I made. "Oeil de Poisson" in English is "fish eye", but signifies a sort of reflection unto infinity, peephole, or mise en abyme. When, in 2019, I was first invited to develop a new work for L'Oeil de Poisson, I was informed that the gallery was about to move out of its building because of impending renovations. When I visited the gallery, the office space was filled with moving boxes. This planned move never took place, but in the intervening years between the beginning of the project and its exhibition, multiple sequences of staff turnover and a global pandemic created layers of confusion about the gallery's identity. My work reflected and amplified this confusion, taking the form of a publication and an exhibition that intensified the underlying dislocation of the gallery from its identity.