Fever (Harlequin Malaria), 2019

With the installation Fever (Harlequin Malaria), Chambaud transposes the symptoms of an illness onto an inanimate object: a section of the wall exhibits the temperature pattern of a specific disease. Palpably warm, the development can also be read on the thermometer’s display from where several sensors extend antennae-like across the wall.

The temperature variations, modelled from the febrile patterns of actual diseases, are transmitted to the architecture of the exhibition space, measured back and displayed on a screen. The system self-regulates its own temperature as the climactic conditions of the space change.

The parenthetical part of the title names both a specific condition which may cause this temperature profile and the color in which the graph is shown on the display.