David Douard's Hybrid Sculptures at Galerie Valentin

At Galerie Valentin in Paris, David Douard presents an exhibition from April 6 to May 10, 2013, featuring mutant hybrid forms that blur boundaries between virtual and real, dream and harsh reality. The show includes sculptures that merge furniture with planters of decaying vegetation, twisted metal stems, artificial flowers, and kitsch plaster ruins covered with poster scraps. A prehistoric computer with floppy disks connects to an unappetizing fountain, while plexiglass bells serve as water containers or electronic game music diffusers. The installation is punctuated by the phrase "sick. 54" on a ceiling poster, referencing a war game video, and a screen announces a program: "Raw collecti…" and "Dream divulge…". A peculiar avatar with four-fingered hands remains folded inside a plastic bag. The artist's work is compared to Tetsumi Kudo rather than the cold technological universe of Loris Gréaud.