L'impact du signe

Door Christophe Muylaert, 2025

40cm x 50cm

This 3D-printed installation questions whether the 9/11 attacks can still be seen as real events, or only as hyperreal images etched into collective memory. Inspired by Jean Baudrillard, it explores how the airplane and towers have become signs—icons in a media spectacle that transcends reality. The physical attachment of the plane to the tower emphasizes that it was not the object itself that struck, but its symbolic force. As Baudrillard wrote: “Reality itself has surpassed itself in its own simulacrum.” The installation reflects on how events are shaped, distorted, and fixed within image, media, and memory. The statue of the Falling Man adds a deeply human and existential dimension to the installation. The choice of the World Trade Center was not just strategic, but symbolic: a monument of Western economic power and globalization. The attack was a spectacle, aimed at disrupting the symbolic order. Its violence was designed to generate meaning—to create an iconic image that would flood the world. In this sense, the event took place primarily in the realm of representation, not material reality.

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