Michaël Sellam's 'We came in peace' at Galerie Pascal Vanhoecke

Michaël Sellam (b. 1975) presents 'We came in peace' at Galerie Pascal Vanhoecke in Paris from April 26 to May 30, 2007. The exhibition title quotes the inscription on the Apollo 11 module from 1969. Sellam repurposes tools from military and territorial defense companies to create multimedia objects that critique society. His robotic vacuum cleaner 'One Flat Thing' roams the gallery as a NASA relic. The film 'Trigger' uses clips from Gus Van Sant's 'Elephant' and allows viewers to play violent scenes with a Joypad. Thirty USB keys on the wall contain research documents, their contents undisclosed. Sellam's work questions technological fascination and colonization of space, aligning with artists like Loris Greaud and Fischli & Weiss. The exhibition evokes Marshall McLuhan's idea that new technologies restructure sensory life, turning electronics into an 'inner' journey full of traps.