all images: Hybrid Opera, 2013
from the group exhibition Tabula
presented during Les Urbaines, Lausanne, December 2013
© wfw

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LAETITIA BECH and JEREMY PININGRE are two French artists who work together on a special project called Hybrid Opera, a non-hierarchical, multi-disciplinary work that gives them the opportunity to bring together all the individual activities that embody their work such as music, fashion, and art.

Each exhibition represents a different act in the opera that mixes history, subculture, intimacy and personal mythology, a cosmology in which symbols and images are densely layered and interconnected. The result is a series of immersive installations where the viewer is always placed at centre stage.

For Les Urbaines (a 3-day festival in Lausanne), LAETITIA BECH and JEREMY PININGRE presented an installation that feels at once rainbowy and post-apocalyptic. The space takes us for a moment in the fantastic and dark imagery in which teens show off their roles and their uncertain identities. Essentially the music progresses to a state where it is monotonous and repetitive. You don’t really know when the sound will end or when it started. Finally the performers appear to be missing, but various scattered assemblages and found objects provide this semi-functional space with its missing performers. Broken paintings, cigarettes and t-shirts form a somewhat surreal tableau which seems about to be set in motion.

For further information visit:

http://jeremypiningre.com/
http://laetitiabech.com/
http://kryptworld.com/

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