Freely adapted from Raymond Roussel:
Locus Solus is an oasis in the city.
A house surrounded by a park containing machines, sculptures, and objects. People come and look around: Locus Solus possesses its own instinctive dreamscape, a whole collection of myths.
In this respect, Locus Solus resembles the play rituals of childhood, or even better, the folk tales and legends to which many episodes allude and which are conjured up through inspiration and knowledge from time immemorial.
A visitor comes to this exhibition and contemplates the "wonders" in the park. During this walk, which might be reminiscent of a secret itinerary (route system), the objects take on a life of their own and begin to tell stories:
- The Story of the Water Sphere
- The Federal
- The Bird Alexander the Great
- Danton's Head
Narrator:
That Thursday, my friend Martial Canterel, along with a few other confidants, had invited me to visit the extensive park surrounding his beautiful house. Locus Solus—that's the name of the estate—is a quiet sanctuary where Canterel usually carries out his diverse work in complete solitude.
It was a beautiful day; the sun sparkled in an almost uniformly clear sky.
The sound of a light tap drew our attention to a device.
Canterel had constructed a device capable of producing a work of art solely through the combined effect of sun and wind.
Thanks to its special components, the device was able to vividly illustrate stories that he could input and recall.
He recalled a Scandinavian moral tale, which he wanted to illustrate to us through the machine.….