Black Mirror

February 13th, 2015 - April 4th, 2015 @ Galerie L'Axolotl

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«If it’s a drug, what are its side effects ? Black Mirror lies within this zone, somewhere between joy and perdition.» - Charlie Brooker, creator of the «Black Mirror» series.

This zone, whether physical or ideological, enables artists to deliver their view, their observations, of our society. «Black Mirror» is an exhibition which stages visions either hallucinatory or fantasized, as expressed in the melancholic images of Nagi Gianni or the kitsch and absurdity of Scott N Andrew ; «Black Mirror» is unclutteredness and pessimism in the guise of Patrick Lacroix, but also humour and derision with the installation of Alain K stuck in his apartment. «Black Mirror» is then a zone of violence and excess, with Federico Solmi’s saturated images, or the frenzy and extravagance of Jon Rafman’s flow of images. This vision of society provided by the works on display focuses on everyday life that submerges the spectator in an overload of images, re-examining his relationship with reality and his ability to detach himself from this flow of information. «Black Mirror» is thus a dystopian, almost apocalyptic view of the omnipresence of screens in our living-rooms or pockets, on our desks and every shiny black wall ; they diffuse or reflect our society. Whether on or off. -Yann Lasserre