Material - 2024

Cur. Anne Vimeux et Élise Poitevin, sissi club, Mexico, Mexique.

SISSI club’s proposal for Material 2024 brings together the practice of Madison Bycroft (AUS), Corentin Darré (FR) and Samir Laghouati-Rashwan (FR), and features a selection of works highlighting the use of digital media to consider the presence of queer and racialized bodies, their existence and their empowerment within them. The artists create new virtual representation around notions of fetishization, cruising and ecology, mixed with iconographic elements from popular culture. Through the creation of video games, 3D images or the installation of sculptures in the form of an arcade game, these artists play on both the exploration afforded by virtual reality and the visibility of practices or histories.
     Corentin Darré explores how virtual and real dimensions intermingle and interact. Using patinas and glosses, he gives these objects a whimsical dimension, reminiscent of the items needed for a player’s quest or the textures used in gameplay. These scripted works evoke the rejection, love, violence and addiction of relationships with others, as well as the pain of loneliness and the abandonment of isolated bodies. In the ongoing series ‘I’m boy you can’t hold IRL’, the artist represents homosexual romances, as well as the practice of cruising in a virtual world. Corentin Darré questions the representation of those love gestures and their existence in unchosen, hidden spaces.

Anne Vimeux et Élise Poitevin