In the words of French artist Jacques Julien, "Art and sport are words which have noisy echoes." For fifteen years Julien has mixed the aesthetics of sports and art by physically deconstructing its playing fields and architecture. By distorting these forms the artist undermines the functional aspect of the work while creating installations that at times playfully echo the surrounding space. Ping-pong tables join together, basketball hoops connect like jewelry, soccer goals become entangled. The dematerialization that occurs in Julien's installations brings the work into the realm of the abstract and formal‹creating a middle-zone which hints at its previous existence.