Hut is the recording of an action concerning a hat, a bucket of water, and explosives.

Two distinct locations are necessary for its enaction: the first, at the foot of the house where the action will unfold, the second several floors above. The video follows the chronology of the event. First, the artist sets up the device at the bottom of the house: the hat is placed on a bucket filled with water, next to a plank equipped with an explosive. Then he walks up to the upper floors, from where he will throw a rock a couple of floors down, onto the plank that is used as a detonator. The stakes of the action reside in the fact that the artist, after having calculated a hypothetical trajectory, manages to propel the hat upwards, in a straight line, and catch it. In order to be able to correctly observe the nature of the event, the action is filmed in slow motion.

Frédéric Bonnet, "Paroles d'artistes, Roman Signer", Le Journal des Arts, n. 244, 6-19 October 2006, p. 13.

Translated by Mia Stern, 2021