“La Ribot’s work demonstrates how the terms “performance” and “exhibition” once marking the difference between dance and fine art have now in fact merged in performative art. The audience can come and go at any point over the five hours of her latest project – and they can be part of an image in the making. With her performance La Ribot confuses both the meanings fixed in images and words and the position of the spectator. Between laughter and action she breaks the image space down into its physical dimension – bringing it down to a human size and making it possible to while one’s time in this mysterious hole shaking with eerie laughter.”

“Never before had such a theme appeared so upfront and named as such. Laughing Hole speaks of the illegal prison of Guantánamo and the whole ideological operation that surrounds the subject. The cardboard pieces that are revealed do not leave any doubt. The sentences that gradually invade the walls create an obvious framework of references. However, maybe the biggest political effort is not in the texts, but in the laughter; this obsessive and hysterical laughter that floods the entire space”.