David Saltiel's Cabin Installations at Hermès Verrière

David Saltiel (born 1967, Paris) presented an exhibition at La Verrière Hermès in Brussels from September to November 2002, and later at Espace Paul Ricard in Paris from January 20 to February 21, 2003. The installation featured five identical cabin-like structures, each resembling a house but limited to a shell. One cabin was transparent, containing three smaller identical cabins. The arrangement allowed visitors to walk around each cabin but not view all at once, creating a dialogue through transparency and mirrors. Doors served different functions: some led inside, others used oculi to distort vision. The work challenged perceptions of scale, private versus public, and individual versus group, embedding the viewer in a sensory experience that questioned reality versus appearance.