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Too Dumb To Fail, 2018


The exhibition Too dumb to fail (2018) is the first chapter of Harvey’s adventures. Harvey is a journalist who was forced by his editor to get on board of the M.S. Lagoon Princess cruise liner. Stuck in his cabin, he develops his own plans and sabotages the ship to reach the south-american coast to pursue his own adventures.
The exhibition space was designed as an immersive narrative environment. It various works mimics cruiseliner’s artefacts in a pop aesthetic bathed in a toxic and disturbing blue light. A maze of thick curtains disrupt the space to underline a not chronological scenario. The rooms reveals a set of works (sculptures, paintings and videos) which set the scenes like traces of a drama. The characters, from the captain to the bartender, wearing troubling make-up, follow the audience from their screens. The narrative is baffled and fragmented in a disturbing aesthetic, building the narrative from room to room, in a strange combination between scenario, exhibition and film.


Video tour of the exhibition Too Dumb To Fail (2018) at the Galerie Edouard Manet, Gennevilliers, FR by DDAB

01/16 - Hanger (2018)
Steel tube, steel plates, varnish, acrylic paint, oiled beech bar, acrylic painting on canvases. 90 x 100 x 20 cm
Image CAC Galerie Edouard Manet / Margot Montigny, 2018 © Hoël Duret / ADAGP, Paris, 2018

02/16 - In needs of saline (2018)
Photo print on aluminum dibond. 120 x 100 cm
Image CAC Galerie Edouard Manet / Margot Montigny, 2018 © Hoël Duret / ADAGP, Paris, 2018

03/16 - Folding screen (2018)
Steel tube, steel hinges, varnish, acrylic paint, brass castors, sandblasted black lacquered glass, plywood, cotton canvas printed on both sides, acrylic painting on canvases. 186 x 260 x 35 cm
Image CAC Galerie Edouard Manet / Margot Montigny, 2018 © Hoël Duret / ADAGP, Paris, 2018

04/16 - Dryer (2018)
Steel grid, steel tube, steel plates, varnish, acrylic paint, brass hooks, acrylic painting on canvases. 140 x 80 x 20 cm
Image CAC Galerie Edouard Manet / Margot Montigny, 2018 © Hoël Duret / ADAGP, Paris, 2018

05/16 - Sick Pipes #1 (2018)
Blown glass, steel tube, varnish, acrylic paint, epoxy glue, black cotton jacketed power cable, electric box, electrical transformer, low voltage bulb. 160 x 120 x 60 cm
© Hoël Duret / ADAGP, Paris, 2018

06/16 - Sick Pipes #2 (2018)
Blown glass, steel tube, varnish, acrylic paint, epoxy glue, black cotton jacketed power cable, electric box, electrical transformer, low voltage bulb. 160 x 120 x 60 cm
© Hoël Duret / ADAGP, Paris, 2018

07/16 - Sick Pipes #3 (2018)
Blown glass, steel tube, varnish, acrylic paint, epoxy glue, black cotton sheathed power cable, electric box, halogen bulb. 160 x 120 x 60 cm
Image CAC Galerie Edouard Manet / Margot Montigny, 2018 © Hoël Duret / ADAGP, Paris, 2018

08/16 - Sick Pipes #4 (2018)
Blown glass, steel tube, varnish, acrylic paint, epoxy glue, black cotton jacketed power cable, electric box, electrical transformer, low voltage bulb. 160 x 120 x 60 cm
© Hoël Duret / ADAGP, Paris, 2018

09/16 - Sick Pipes #5 (2018)
Blown glass, steel tube, varnish, acrylic paint, epoxy glue, black cotton jacketed power cable, electric box, electrical transformer, low voltage bulb. 160 x 120 x 60 cm
© Hoël Duret / ADAGP, Paris, 2018

10/16 - Sick Pipes #6 (2018)
Blown glass, steel tube, varnish, acrylic paint, epoxy glue, black cotton jacketed power cable, electric box, electrical transformer, low voltage bulb. 160 x 120 x 60 cm
© Hoël Duret / ADAGP, Paris, 2018

11/16 - Sick Pipes #7 (2018)
Blown glass, steel tube, varnish, acrylic paint, epoxy glue, black cotton sheathed power cable, electric box, halogen bulb. 160 x 120 x 60 cm
Image CAC Galerie Edouard Manet / Margot Montigny, 2018 © Hoël Duret / ADAGP, Paris, 2018

12/16 - Standing black mirror #1 (2018)
Steel tube, varnish, acrylic paint, brass castors, sandblasted black lacquered glass, painted medium, neutral mirror glue, oiled beech bar, black fabric, sand, acrylic painting on canvases. 187 x 81 x 20 cm
Image CAC Galerie Edouard Manet / Margot Montigny, 2018 © Hoël Duret / ADAGP, Paris, 2018

13/16 - Standing black mirror #2 (2018)
Steel tube, varnish, acrylic paint, brass castors, sandblasted black lacquered glass, painted medium, neutral mirror glue, oiled beech bar, black fabric, sand, acrylic painting on canvases. 187 x 81 x 20 cm
Image CAC Galerie Edouard Manet / Margot Montigny, 2018 © Hoël Duret / ADAGP, Paris, 2018

14/16 - Standing black mirror #3 (2018)
Steel tube, varnish, acrylic paint, brass castors, sandblasted black lacquered glass, painted medium, neutral mirror glue, oiled beech bar, black fabric, sand, acrylic painting on canvases. 187 x 81 x 20 cm
Image CAC Galerie Edouard Manet / Margot Montigny, 2018 © Hoël Duret / ADAGP, Paris, 2018

15/16 - Wall mounted black mirror #1 (2018)
Steel tube, steel plates, varnish, acrylic paint, sandblasted black lacquered glass, painted medium, neutral glue with mirror, oiled beech bar, acrylic painting on canvases. 70 x 140 x 20 cm
Image CAC Galerie Edouard Manet / Margot Montigny, 2018 © Hoël Duret / ADAGP, Paris, 2018

16/16 - Wall mounted black mirror #2 (2018)
Steel tube, steel plates, varnish, acrylic paint, sandblasted black lacquered glass, painted medium, neutral glue with mirror, oiled beech bar, acrylic painting on canvases. 70 x 140 x 20 cm
Image CAC Galerie Edouard Manet / Margot Montigny, 2018 © Hoël Duret / ADAGP, Paris, 2018