Matthieu Gafsou

H+

Maison des peintres

H+ focuses on transhumanism, a movement advocating the use of science and technology to enhance humans’ physical and mental abilities. H+’s photographs are elliptical and have little context. Taken one by one, they baffle more than they explain. Seen together, they weave a web of discourse. Artificial, they resemble their subject: it is no longer known whether the living die by becoming machines or inanimate objects spring to life. H+ talks about our bodies, our everyday lives and our relationship to technology, as well as opens up future prospects. No response is given, but the exhibition can work both as a tool to think about a key issue of our time and as a poetic space that confronts us with the absurdity of our finiteness.

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Exhibition produced in partnership with the Musée d’art de Pully.
Publication: H+, coedition Kehrer Verlag and Actes Sud, 2018.
Prints and framing by Après Midi Lab, Paris, with support from Sénélar-Larson Juhl, Hazebrouck.
Wallpapers by Picto, Paris.

With support from the Swiss Confederation, the Swiss Arts Council Pro Helvetia, the City of Lausanne and the Galerie Éric Mouchet (Paris).

H+ will be presented at the Jimei x Arles International Photo Festival (Xiamen, China), from November 23, 2018 to January 3, 2019.

The exhibition "3D immersive tour" has been created by Notoryou.