Detour

A group show featuring four contemporaries Ben Inghmam, Cedric Christie, Pascal Rousson and Paul Carter.

The idea is to create not something preconceived but something quite organic, leaving space for accidents or experimentation.

A dérive (detour) from the usual paths of experiencing a show, trying to crete authentic encounters and discover new hidden connections between our quite different works, practices and use of mediums. Somehow echoing the ‘wandering technique developed by the 1950s Situationist idea to consciously explore urban spaces without a predetermined plan’.

Guy Debord defines détournement as the ‘re-use of pre-existing elements in a new ensemble’, which can be translated as mimicry and recuperation, rather constructing a new work that creates a new meaning from the original work.

Their meaning is no produced through inventions but deviation and détournement, The show should work as a construction or a display of displacement, using photography, paintings, symbols etc and re-routing their meaning.