Tell the king, the splendid hall fell to the ground.
Phœbus no longer has his house, nor the prophesying laurel,
nor the speaking well. The speaking water has dried out.
Last known oracle of Delphi, to the emperor Julian (362 AD)
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Beneath one of the chandeliers in the living room, a multitude of polished brass strips cascade over the mosaic of the labyrinth where Theseus and the Minotaur battle endlessly.
In symmetry with the ribbons of questions to the Oracle of Dodona (hanging from the tree in the peristyle), these present all the known answers of the Delphic Oracle.
Active for over ten centuries, this was the most important oracle in Greece. Its answers, as much legendary as proven, are part of its literary heritage: strange or hallucinatory poetry, filtered by the priests surrounding the Pythia, it is the counterpart of the simple, down-to-earth questions asked to the oracle of Dodona.
Between the distant light of divinity and the labyrinth of human life, the oracle offered a possible, immediate, transcendent link.
Embossed brass strips, steel structure
230 x 82 x 82 cm