An art installation that sums up 2017

New York

EVERY once in a while with Twitter, you find something that breaks through the bilge and recrimination. Or, sometimes something finds you. One night, The Mechanics of History found me. It is an art installation by Yoann Bourgeois that sat in a daylit rotunda at the Pantheon, in Paris. And for a long while in late autumn, I found myself mesmerised by a video of it, starring men spinning off a staircase and onto a trampoline.

The staircase cur…