Dans “L’état de nos provisions” qui installe un miroir au milieu des photos et des textes, le spectateur qui se voit dedans se retrouve partie intégrante du tableau... "Signature éphémère qui ne dépose pas du visuel... qui s’inscrive dans le temps."

Michel Nuridsany 1989

Gerz is clearly aware of the paradoxes in any story. If something is told, something else is not. Does that mean that the parts which were not told or read did not occur? How can one remain aware of the parts which may not have been told but are still present? The forms which his art takes are carefully chosen to suggest that what is present, what we see, is only a portion of the story. We often can only imagine the rest or we must search to discover it.

Judith Mastai 1993