The Remote viewing is a psychic faculty which seeks to describe a target of any kind (place, event, person ...) jointly using intuition and reasoning. The information is perceived at a distance (geographic and temporal) from the target. In September 1980, Elisabeth Targ took part in an experiment. Janice Boughton, who led the experiment, chose four objects that represent the four possible results of the election of the new American president. Each object, hidden from Elizabeth, is placed in a small wooden box. Boughton then asked Targ: “Which object shall I present to you at midnight on election night? » Targ described a white, hollow, conical object with a string attached to the top of the cone. Maxime Bondu went the other way by deducing an artefact from this description, and thus setting out a possible interpretation of the vision of Elisabeth Targ. Continuing then a fortuitous family connection - Elizabeth being the niece of Bobby Fischer, chess world champion - the artist weaves connections between remote viewing and chess, a game that crystallizes intelligence, memory and intuition. Indeed during the world chess championship in Reykjavik in 1972, the Russian side accused the American player of using electronic or chemical devices against Boris Spassky. A few days before, Fischer had demanded the removal of some cameras that were disturbing him. The chairs would be X-rayed and samples of the furniture, the stage and the ambient sent to be analysed. By reproducing the chairs from the images from the cameras, Maxime Bondu seeks to recover the image of the East / West confrontation and any possible interference present. He found such interference when printing out one of the images of the event - in a printing error.

View of the solo exhibition, The Remote and the Deep war, 2015

Galerie Jérôme Poggi, Paris, 2015.

Photo © Nicolas Brasseur