Beat we beat
Beat we beat (2019) incorporates several elements that run through David Douard’s work. On a piece of screen-printed fabric stretched over a wooden frame, printed forms suggest distorted letters. The title, organized around the pronoun We, positions the artist as a universal spokesperson. His message, made anonymous by avatars and pseudonyms, is here made up of texts collected online. Feeding off his use of the internet and the contemporary technological practices he observes, David Douard presents with Beat we beat a work in which text becomes material and words spread over sculptures like graffiti. A symbol of a place where a revolution seems possible, the internet thus acquires a certain materiality. Technology becomes a tool for creation, like any other recovered material.
Text written by Julie Robin as part of the partnership between the École du Louvre and Lafayette Anticipations – Fonds de dotation Famille Moulin.
Exhibitions
Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin (Irelande)
from 21 Sep 2019 to 22 Mar 2020
Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris (France)
from 12 janvier 2019 to 14 février 2019