Tántalo refers both to tantalum -a metal- and to the Greek myth of Tantalus, king of Frigia and son of Zeus; condemned to stand in a pool of clear water that recedes each time he tries to drink from it. Above him, branches laden with fruit withdraw whenever he tries to reach for them. This story evokes an experience that is pertinent throughout all of Jacquot’s work: a constant tension between appearance and withdrawal, between matter and its disappearance, the promise of an image and the impossibility of fixing it. A fading reflection, a slipping glimmer, a surface that never fully gives itself. In a place like the Biblioteca Vasconcelos -suspended, transparent, layered- this idea finds a natural resonance. The space itself seems to offer forms that appear and retreat, as if the building shared this “tantalizing” condition.

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