view of the DAVID DOUARD solo show Mo’Swallow, Palais de Tokyo, Paris

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view of the DAVID DOUARD solo show Mo’Swallow, Palais de Tokyo, Paris

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view of the DAVID DOUARD solo show Mo’Swallow, Palais de Tokyo, Paris

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view of the DAVID DOUARD solo show Mo’Swallow, Palais de Tokyo, Paris

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view of the DAVID DOUARD solo show Mo’Swallow, Palais de Tokyo, Paris

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view of the DAVID DOUARD solo show Mo’Swallow, Palais de Tokyo, Paris

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view of the DAVID DOUARD solo show Mo’Swallow, Palais de Tokyo, Paris

all images (unless otherwise stated):
courtesy Galerie High Art
​photo: AURELIEN MOLE

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Mo’ swallow, the latest solo exhibition by DAVID DOUARD at Palais de Tokyo in Paris, presents a unique universe both inviting and discomforting, embodied and abstract, by fusing a critical perspective of civilization within social and digital systems and processes.

Organic, porous and primitive, his work deals with materiality by playfully decategorizing the conventional form and nature of objects. Through corrupting and manipulating everyday objects DAVID DOUARD not only creates new spatial and conceptual environments, but also combines digital with analogue, biological with technological, food with waste and memory with fact.

The result is a mix of mutated objects —presented in installation, sculptures and films – which explores the elisions between man and machine, life and death, that dominate DOUARD’s work. It also captures the peculiarly immanent quality that his hybrid objects are always caught in the moment of becoming, decaying, growing or changing. Never still, never complete.

➝  Mo’Swallow, in the season L’Etat du ciel, is on view at Palais de Tokyo in Paris until May 12, 2014. Additionally DAVID DOUARD is also presenting his work at the SculptureCenter in New York until May 12, 2014.

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