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