Liv Schulman's 'The New Inflation' at Galerie Anne Barrault

Liv Schulman's exhibition 'The New Inflation' at Galerie Anne Barrault in Paris runs until May 22, 2022. The centerpiece is her 63-minute film 'The New Inflation,' shot over a year during the pandemic in an industrial warehouse in Omaha, Nebraska, with amateur actors. The film uses the concept of inflation as a metaphor for economic crises, political discourse, and cosmic expansion, drawing on Schulman's experience of Argentina's 2001 economic crisis. Characters move on wheeled chairs, change names constantly, and engage in absurd dialogues about commerce, debt, and desire, evoking a Tupperware party. Props resembling military uniforms lie on uneven plywood floors, and the gallery's facade is covered with similar planks, recalling the yellow vest protests. The film consists of eight episodes and features prosthetic objects displayed alongside it. Schulman, born in 1985 and raised in Buenos Aires, creates a comedic yet incisive narrative that captures social confusion and the centrifugal force of speech.