Sans titre
A man with sausages spilling out of his pockets and others as toes, a woman with an open skull from which two small figures emerge, a girl with a deformed face holding a boyish mushroom... These curious characters look on in bewilderment at what is happening on the buffet from which they were about to help themselves. A scene of debauchery unfolds on the table with the food itself: a strawberry charlotte is drinking champagne straight from the bottle, while a leggy sausage sends a right hook into a staggering plate of gougères under the eye of a pig’s head sporting piercings and dark glasses. The absurdity of the situation is not so much due to the anthropomorphization of the food as to the strange burlesque reversal that pushes the humans, themselves subtly hybridized, to contemplate this festive and comical scene. The duo’s joyfully shambolic works highlight our unspoken fantasies and the absurdity of certain everyday situations. They touch on social issues with an amused point of view, but also a form of black humour that is sometimes grating and cruel.
Text written by Mariane Tricoire as part of the partnership between the École du Louvre and Lafayette Anticipations – Fonds de dotation Famille Moulin.
Exhibition
La Galerie des Galeries, Paris (France)
from 01 Oct to 29 Oct 2005