JÉRÔME LEUBA

Over the last decade Jérôme Leuba has been putting to­gether a cor­pus of works called “Bat­tle­fields” which not only dis­play power re­la­tions but also, by cre­at­ing am­bigu­ous or sin­gu­lar sit­u­a­tions, de­ci­pher the codes and strate­gies that gov­ern im­ages in our day and age.

This piece, con­ceived for Caméra(Auto)Contrôle, con­sists in a mon­tage made from the archives left by a we­b­cam film­ing Andy Warhol’s grave in Pitts­burgh 24/7 from Jan­u­ary to May 2016. There is a man­i­fest con­nec­tion here with Warhol’s rad­i­cally long fixed shots (Em­pire, 6 hours), and also with his in­ter­est in non­events. The piece is also a homage to the “15 min­utes of fame” that Warhol de­clared would be our com­mon lot. This pre­dic­tion made in the 1960s an­tic­i­pated our grow­ing ten­dency to will­ingly over­ex­pose our every lit­tle deed and ges­ture.

*1970, Geneva, lives and works in Geneva

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BATTLEFIELD#109 / PITTSBURGH, 2016
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