L’installation artistique Allégorie, texte, fragment, plénitude

An installation condenses into a single structure a way for an artist to construct a world based on provisionally modified fragments. Artists like Joseph Kosuth and Cildo Meireles engineer a process of understanding in which the installation as a fragment is a section of meaning. On the other hand, Ilya Kabakov insists on the aesthetic whole. The old tension between allegory and symbol lives on.