Robin Kid's 'It's All Your Fault' Exhibition at Galerie Templon Critiques American Decay

Robin Kid, also known as The Kid, presents a provocative exhibition titled 'It's All Your Fault' at Galerie Templon in Paris, running through October 23, 2021. The show features shaped canvases and a large bronze sculpture that nearly threatened the gallery floor's structural capacity. Kid's paintings layer fragmented imagery resembling computer windows, suggesting a metaphor for human memory. Works depict disturbing American scenes: a child posing with a gun before a school bus, referencing mass shootings and Michael Moore's 'Bowling for Columbine'; a skeletal Bugs Bunny lying on an American flag like a homeless person or fallen soldier; a shirtless teenager with black eye and pink hair under both threatening vultures and Disney-style blue tits; another vomiting soda against a backdrop of Western mining trains and World War I soldiers. The bronze sculpture incorporates a vulture and sports car fragment. Critic Richard Leydier notes thematic connections to Raymond Hains' 2000 'Mackintoshages' exhibition at the same gallery, which also explored window motifs during computing's early days, and references Alberti's concept of painting as a window onto the world. The exhibition portrays a society on the brink of collapse, with vanitas themes questioning paradise. Leydier visited Kid's studio south of Paris months earlier, observing the works in development.