"In girum imus nocte et consumimur igni  -  We go round in circles in the dark night, consumed by fire. Nothing else seems to define so well our present predicament as this ancient Roman palindrome inscribed in a circle, letter by letter constructing a labyrinth with no exit, the perfect embodiment, in shape and meaning, of our doom."

The last full-length film made by Guy Debord  before his suicide in 1994 at the age of 63, takes the pulse of the avant-garde, its spirit of revolt, evoking friends and memories from youth, shot as one continuous sequence with an invitation in the last few frames to "start again at the beginning". Spanning the three floors of the museum, the exhibition is an extension of the thoughts and issues raised by Guy Debord's film which serves as a loose guide to a series of works that begin and end with the projection of the film.

This central vision of a circle of flames in the dark was the talisman of a "passionate obsession" for doom in Guy Debord's work. The exhibition examines artworks that raise similar issues engendered by the view of ruins, halfway between past and unattainable future (Le temps en ruine, by Marc Augé). Going round in circles (Bruce Nauman, Zilvinas Kempinas) and fiery combustion (La Monte Young, Joe Scanlan) can be seen as allegories of doom (Steve McQueen), returning (Ugo Rondinone), exploding (Claude Lévêque), reappearing (Maire et Chambaud) or simply energy (Berdaguer&Pejus) or exhaustion of energy (Barry Le Va). Some of the works may require darkness (Ian Hamilton Finlay, Douglas Gordon) but all are bathed in the light of melancholia, searching for an answer.

The exhibition was specifically designed for Rochechouart MoCA by Mark Geffriaud, with works from the museum's collection as well as others generously lent from public and private collectors.