Christopher Coppers
FOLLOW THE LINE
May 5 to June 24, 2023
For the past 25 years, Christopher Coppers' artistic work has been part of a reflection on the omnipresence of the printed image in contemporary culture. The son of a fashion photographer who later specialized in film development, the artist grew up surrounded by images.
At the heart of Christopher's approach is an obsession, an object of questioning: the magazine. Bible of the end of the twentieth century where, with the wire of the pages which pile up, images and colors clash, answer themselves, contradict themselves.
The magazine is then the merciless instructions of a certain contemporary existence, dictating the standards and the behaviors by its injunctions sometimes unrealistic, sometimes paradoxical.
Time has passed, the codes have changed. Today, at a time when the printed image has gradually lost its pre-eminence, the consumption of images has evolved exponentially, heading towards digital shores, backlit, devoid of matter, texture.
Every day, more than three billion images are shared on social networks. In the midst of a frantic, chaotic information race, we are torn between cognitive overload and ideological polarization, in a tumult where the distinction between the notions of truth and falsehood are increasingly obscure and blurred.
Christopher Coppers, deeply sensitive to the jolts of his time, is now offering a new series, Monochrome, nourished by both introspection and extrospection.
Follow the Line
May 5 – June 24, 2023
Today, the artist continues his exploration of contemporary visual culture by offering a subtle reflection on the evolution of image consumption.
An exploration of his raw material, paper, which takes the form of a counterpoint, a peaceful revolt. Monochrome, it is the silence, the meditation which settles after the hurricane. The sheets of paper are superimposed, but at the antipodes of the cries, the orders, the shouting colors.
Beyond the image, it is the material itself, its essence, its matter, its texture, which are in the center of the attention. The eye travels, moves on the reliefs tone on tone, sometimes dunes, sometimes craters.
The silence makes way for the contemplation.
Christophe Coppers returns to the essence of his raw material, paper, in a series that takes the form of a counterpoint, a peaceful revolt to an era saturated by a whirlwind of information and unbridled images.
Beyond the image, it is the material itself, its matter, its texture, which are at the center of attention.
The eye travels, moves on the reliefs tone on tone, sometimes dunes, sometimes craters.