Johan Parent, Asphalt
La Serre, Saint-Étienne
Galeries Nomades 2012,
Institut d’Art contemporain, Villeurbanne / Rhône-Alpes
Johan Parent’s multiform work shows the change in the status of objects in our society. He examines them by disassembling their functionality and their dependence on human presence, sometimes becoming absurd, counter-productive machines. The artist also plays on the saturation or scrambling of our environments and creates self-sufficient devices that reveal modern symptoms (anxiety, failure, etc.). The works shown at La Serre consist of visual and sound installations featuring movement (motorised mirrors, industrial fans…), with the presence of urban components.
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