Palais de Tokyo in its autumn programs celebrates diversity in all its facets, whether in terms of artistic forms or cultural identities. For the occasion, visitors can explore a variety of artistic expressions, from performance art to painting, film, drawing, installations and even graffiti. The focus is on exploring individual and collective identities, and how they are constructed in an ever-changing world.
By Efi Michalarou Photo: Dimitris Lempesis Archive
Jakob Lena Knebl and Ashley Hans Scheirl’s exhibition “Doppelganger !” takes the form of diverse installations, islands of light that invite the public to explore “spaces of desire”, in their words. They create an immersive setting with carpets and mirrors through which the visitors become part of the show. The scenography draws on the codes of art, design, literature and socio-cultural phenomena while tending towards the humorous and the grotesque. The installations presented confuse values, they generate a series of tensions and affects that lend the most recognisable of their sources of inspiration an uncanny effect that is both unsettling and intriguing. References from Mary Shelley and Ada Lovelace to Barbapapa, Hans Bellmer to Luigi Colani, Hector Guimard1 to contemporary cyber aesthetics are interwoven to create protean works and beings, whose transmorphism pushes back the boundaries of good taste and representations of identity. The artists enter into a dialogue with each other based on the prefix “trans”: transmedium, transgenre, transmateriality, transcontext – a playful interchange between contemporary creation and the history of art and design, deconstructing the idea of identity as a whole: from mannerism to surrealism, from dark romanticism to biomorphism, and from modernism to postmodernism, opening onto a future of cybernetic existence.
Info: Palais de Tokyo, 13 avenue du Président Wilson, Paris, France, Duration: 19/10/2023-7/1/2024, Days & Hours: Mon, Wed & Fri-Sun 12:00-22:00, Thu 12:00-00:00, https://palaisdetokyo.com/
Palais de Tokyo in its autumn programs celebrates diversity in all its facets, whether in terms of artistic forms or cultural identities. For the occasion, visitors can explore a variety of artistic expressions, from performance art to painting, film, drawing, installations and even graffiti. The focus is on exploring individual and collective identities, and how they are constructed in an ever-changing world.
