Moriceau and Mrzyk will present the music video made for the recent single by the French electronic band AIR, entitled Don’t be light (from the album 10,000 Hz Legend). The main effect of this exhibition is the creation and variation of a complex and vibrant visual network. The subjects, drawn mostly from obscure everyday banalities, experiment playfully with specific objects, scenes and incidents either by focusing on seemingly insignificant details, or by recombining them in unexpected contexts. Certain themes and motifs continually reappear throughout the work, but always modified and re-mixed. The commonplace serves as an inexhaustible inventory to be graphically transformed by Moriceau and Mrzyk. Their imagination decamouflages their subjects as carriers of hidden and equivocal connotations. From their unique perspective, a framework is revealed and shapes are fabricated with an absurd and sparkling humor. Across the variety of media used by the artists, the underlying unity lies in the strong draftsmanship of their reductive, black-lined drawing. In the red-printed wallpaper that alludes to a popular 19th century French wall-fabric, a constantly repeating pattern of vignettes forms a flowing arabesque. The projection of drawings onto this produces a lively reciprocal play between foreground and background, resulting in an overall translation of jarring components into strong formal composition. Instead of spatial arrangement, the videos of Moriceau and Mrzyk play on the idea of progression, linking the imagery into a succession of animated drawings. Whether as images on the walls, playing with the space they are drawn in, or animated in video, the art of Moriceau and Mrzyk provokes a surreal leverage from our habitats of perception, and exposes the viewer to an all-encompassing, and completely unique visual universe.
Press release written by Marcus Ritter Gallery, New York
