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Cru Bourgeois « Les lois universelles de l’échange » (texte de Alexandra Navratil)
Le travail de Raymond Taudin Chabot opère dans le cadre de ces contradictions complexes d'échange. Dans Henkersmahlzeit (2010), une série de portraits photographiques d'hommes habillés en costume sont censurés par la pixélisation des têtes. Les champs de couleur des pixels se rajoutent de façon minutieuse sur la photo, utilisant un écran de soie. C'est un processus qui imite, d'une façon humoristique, l'abstraction esthétique Moderniste ainsi que le design. Le vidéo Archive I (2009) est constituée par une grande collection d'images de journaux qui montrent des émeutes, des manifestations et des révoltes. Les images individuelles sont vaguement catégorisées dans des séquences, non pas selon des critères chronologiques ou géographiques, mais purement selon des codes et des signes visuels.
English Version
The Universal Laws of Exchange In our current economic situation, which is controlled by the expansion of finance capital rather than by production, progressing abstraction penetrates all social and economic realms. In contrast to the immateriality and abstraction of the current financial operations, there are nevertheless the vast physical networks and infrastructure that demand certain processes of production and distribution. Within these global logistics, commodities, information and migrant work underlie different laws of circulation. On an aesthetic level, abstraction as investigated by Modernism has largely been translated into the ever-present world of design, manifested in products, graphics, logos and brands, creating a visually frictionless world of flatness and interchangeability. His series of large photographic prints titled Country Road Casual (2010) depicts various logos of transport companies. These logos are vectoral symbols of speed, transnational logistics and the limitless circulation of goods. Photographed on the very trucks at night, the physical traces revealed on the canvases lift the logos from their one dimensionality. City maps, maps of Europe or maps of the world are present in many of the spaces depicted in the slide show entitled Silent Queue (2008). The origin or the function of these spaces remains opaque but they indicate the existence of the precarious reality of a parallel economy. In Henkersmahlzeit (2010), a series of photographic portraits of men in suits are censored by the pixilation of the heads. The color fields of the pixels are meticulously silkscreened onto the photograph, a process that playfully mimics both Modernist aesthetic abstraction and design. The video Archive I (2009) consists of a wide collection of newspaper images showing riots, demonstrations and revolts. The individual images are loosely categorized into sequences, not by chronological or geographical criteria, but purely by visual codes and signs.
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