Cyprien Gaillard
The Lake Arches (2007–22)

Video / Commissioned work

Dates
21.9.–15.10.2023

Location
Church of Ruined Modernity
Graz

Part of
Church of Ruined Modernity

Production specifics
Courtesy of the artist and Sprüth Magers

Cyprien Gaillard’s video is a short, sharp loop enacting the aesthetic violence routinely found in a landscape after modernism. Two young men dive into a lake on a hot day, only to instantly stand up in the shallow water, one of them with a bloody nose and in visible pain. The camera reveals that the lake is part of a postmodern housing complex that today looks more and more like a huge, dysfunctional stage set, falling into ruin.

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