Micha Laury's Futuristic Humanoids and Kafkaesque Installations at Médiathèque Benjamin Rabier

Micha Laury's exhibition 'Le Futur sera absolu (Laboratoire)' at Médiathèque Benjamin Rabier in La Roche-sur-Yon (November 27, 2010 – January 29, 2011) explores humanity's distant future through five chocolate sculptures of futuristic humanoids with oversized brains, created in consultation with a team of scientists. Watercolor drawings depict an unsettling human factory. A 1975 performance photograph shows the artist cooking a cow brain the size of a human brain. The installation 'A Hole in the Soul' presents a Kafkaesque atmosphere through a dozen drawings. A video of a motorcyclist spinning frantically is followed by a hungry man endlessly licking a chocolate circle, displayed on multiple running fans creating a vortex effect. In 'Burning Titles', Laury sets fire to matchstick-written titles of his drawings from 1967 to 2001, leaving calcined memory strata. 'Mind Paradox / Conscious Mind' is a book with blood-red silicone pages reproducing his drawings in relief, reflecting nearly forty years of themes of confinement and incommunicability.