Maire’s works evolve in a middle-ground between art and philosophy, showing and thinking. His approach involves a decisive role for indexes, or respectively the act of indexing. The
index finger, the Latin root of the word, is at once an artistic measuring device as well as a concept. According to the theory of a French philosopher, Alain Badiou, the index serves to denote the the incidence of an artistic process. The index finger pointing upwards, a reference to da Vinci’s painting of John the Baptist, becomes the symbol of a transcendental gesture of creation and an act of presentation.
