Weak Tongue

Weak Tongue, Eva Barto’s first solo exhibition in a Parisian institution, is a continuation of a research around the notions of support, financial support, and their ambiguities.

Weak Tongue refers to the discrepancies and errors in language and the dubious and ambivalent behaviours they imply.
The exhibition is built through the use of a sharp wooden tongue that lends itself constantly to reversals. It manifests itself in the manipulations, interpretations and deviations of laws and rules that protect and spare, both those who make them, and those who circumvent them.

Weak Tongue exaggerates the opportunistic method in place in these strategies, delivering it through borrowed testimonials, accumulating official and unofficial versions, real, erroneous, or contradictory. The shift from one discourse to another and the treatment of the exhibition space aimed at neutralizing it, establish a regime of suspicion and lead to consider the context as a whole, to measure what is said and you, leaving the corruptive dynamic to spread and spare nothing.

• Eva Barto