MATHIEU BERNARD-REYMOND - TV
CLAAS, ARNAUD
A seductive atmosphere redolent of cinema dominates the digital photo series TV by Mathieu Bernard-Reymond (*1976). Isolated people who seem to be threatened by an unidentifiable danger move along the streets at night. Only upon closer inspection does one realize that the artist has replaced the illuminated windows with television screens. The colorful screens do not allow anyone to look either in or out and are limited to just a few channels. And the wild creatures outside the buildingssuch as animals of prey on the prowl, half-naked women, riot police, two boxers in the middle of a fightare merely artificial in nature, constructed out of flickering, blurred television images.
Mathieu Bernard-Reymonds disturbing photographs symbolize as palpably as they do impressively howin a reality that is only conveyed through mediaall of life ultimately dissolves into a mass of indistinguishable pixels.
With support of the Centre national des arts plastiques, Ministère de la Culture et de la Communication.
