Smith / Stewart

The project of this exhibition tries to put in parallel the question of survival in the situation of confrontation between power and sex for Philippe Meste and the relations in the couple for Smith/Stewart.

These two forms of confrontation/relation form an integral part of our existence. Sex, violence, survival, love, aggressiveness, obsession, relation and communication are subjects which art should “touch”. Nothing is more delicate than examining some of these attitudes as long as their implication in our way of life remains obscure, put apart, and one needs a certain amount of courage to approach them.

Smith/Stewart work specifically on video, because it enables them to see and to control directly what they do. However, video is not only a support which is practical or easy to use to explore a man/woman relation. It functions in their work like a metaphor of the man/woman relations.

Exhibition in parallel: Philippe Meste