Explosition: Pascal Laborde, Nicolas Darrot, Régis Mayot at Centre d'art contemporain, Saint-Cyprien

The Centre d'art contemporain in Saint-Cyprien, France, hosted 'Explosition' from July 6 to September 21, 2002, featuring three artists in their thirties: Pascal Laborde, Nicolas Darrot, and Régis Mayot. The exhibition explored the deconstruction of reality through drawing, sculpture, and installation. Laborde's large-format drawings depict bolts, gears, and disassembled parts, often with faint animal figures like deer or dogs. Darrot's 'Électromassacre' presents a life-size silicone hunter seated at a camping table, surrounded by taxidermy trophies (deer, boar, three turkeys) with sounds of clucks and grunts; the hunter's chest opens to reveal a mechanical alien. Mayot cuts and arranges empty household product containers (bottles, cans) on shelves, transforming them into colorful, skeletal structures that question the relationship between container and content. The exhibition was curated to reflect a reverse trajectory from conception to realization, exposing the illusory nature of culture.