Benjamin Grivot, "Attention au feu", 2022, Polyester resin, H 80cm x 60cm x 5cm
Benjamin Grivot, "HAPPY" (detail), 2018, Steel, polyester resin, fiberglass, cable in steel, Variable dimension
B E N J A M I N G R I V O T
FAKE
S O L O S H O W
March 10 - May 7 2022
ABC DIJON - SCENE PLURIDISCIPLINAIRE
FRANCE
Fake
by Benjamin Grivot
From March 10th to May 7th
ABC Dijon, multidisciplinary scene
Dijon, France
"FAKE!" as an accusation.
"FAKE!" that slams into the lʼair.
"FAKE!" that sounds like an insult.
"FAKE!", not far from "FUCK!".
The fake to speak of the real, discreetly, in a slip. The fake in a silence that speaks in its own way of the world that hits us. The word is as vivid as the images proposed. Fake objects, fake artists? From copies to reproductions, in a world surrounded by images right behind our eyelids. Itʼs like a repetition, a pattern, an obsession, an old guitar riff that has been looped for decades. Taken and retaken, it doesnʼt sound original anymore, but it doesnʼt care.
While we would like to cut ourselves off from the real and tell it to go to hell, it catches up with us and hits us in the face, like the shock of a fictional and yet so true mass grave. Above it, floats painfully an old injunction to happiness. It has been there for a long time and is watching us. In a corner of the wall we scribble the bottom of our thought, which persists. And we step back to understand that behind, two orifices are watching us too, and we would have been fine without them.
We turn around, sneak around and fall back on those same four fossilized guitar chords. Finally a warning, an umpteenth, surely not the last.
Views of Benjamin Grivot's solo show, Fake