LEO GABIN, Exit/Entry
installation view at Peres Projects, Berlin / January 2016

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LEO GABIN, Exit/Entry
installation view at Peres Projects, Berlin / January 2016

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LEO GABIN, Exit/Entry
installation view at Peres Projects, Berlin / January 2016

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Untitled, 2015
painting – lacquer and acrylic on aluminum
192 x 135 cm (75.59 x 53.15 in)

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Untitled, 2015
painting – lacquer and acrylic on aluminum
192 x 135 cm (75.59 x 53.15 in)

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LEO GABIN, Exit/Entry
installation view at Peres Projects, Berlin / January 2016

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In the Berliner gallery Peres Projects, LEO GABIN is presenting a new body of works entitled Exit/Entry. Inspired by a virtual relation with a woman living in California and named BONNIE, GABIN recontextualizes one typical day in the life of the American woman through a video, a series of paintings and image-text juxtapositions.

By browsing, selecting and finally transforming footages from the 3,000 videos that BONNIE uploaded, LEO GABIN is probably the main subject as much as those the woman recorded. It’s what makes this work interesting, this sense of implication, that in exposing the life of this American woman, he is actually exposing himself.

But still, what is shown, really? Nothing; banal views from urban areas, strangers in the street and random events from BONNIE’s life. In that sense, Exit/Entry is less a work of appropriation than of the imagination, an expression of what we all do all the time, or as DAVID FOSTER WALLACE wrote in his essay ‘This Is Water‘ (2009): The world as you experience it is right there in front of you, or behind you, to the left or right of you, on your TV, or your monitor, or whatever. Other people’s thoughts and feelings have to be communicated to you somehow, but your own are so immediate, urgent, real – you get the idea .

Exit/Entry by LEO GABIN is on view at Peres Projects in Berlin until February 6, 2016.

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