Day & Night

With Day & Night, which Yaacov Agam made in 1980 in Paris, the artist proposes, more than twenty years later, a reinterpretation of the Belgian surrealist master. Real mise en abyme, the work exudes a feeling of strangeness and elusiveness. This fascinating and mysterious realization also plays on the dichotomy of day and night. Like a double identity, the night embodies the dark and indecipherable part and the day symbolizes the light and the comprehensible world.

Magritte declared that "this evocation of night and day seems to me endowed with the power to surprise and enchant us. I call this power: poetry”

But day, night ... rather than being a simple opposition, could they be two separate but also complementary moments ?