Rick, le 6e Backstreet boi: I didn't want it that way
Inspired by everyday life and popular culture, Rick, the sixth backstreet boi鈥檚 exhibition presents a set of multidisciplinary works comprising digital collages and a documentary video-performance. The artist take stock of the commonplaces that they have observed, explored, and contextualized in a queer and feminist frame of mind. According to their official agent, they uphold their art practice as a 鈥渧ermicompost鈥� in which they 鈥渞eappropriate popular canons in order to create from the ruins of an egregore founded on exploitation and control.鈥�
Exploring their non-binary gender identity, 鈥淩ick has turned out to be a real compost mushroom, digesting the toxicity of the mass-media-induced boy-band culture on which they were bottle-fed in childhood in the 1990s,鈥� says the same official agent. From an activist and empathetic perspective, Rick鈥檚 story draws on the codes of North-American culture, analyzing Rick's own contribution to colonialism as well as their own middle-class status. This reading seeks to highlight the articulation of relationships between culture, society, and power.
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Inspired by everyday life and popular culture, Rick, the sixth backstreet boi鈥檚 exhibition presents a set of multidisciplinary works comprising digital collages and a documentary video-performance. The artist take stock of the commonplaces that they have observed, explored, and contextualized in a queer and feminist frame of mind. According to their official agent, they uphold their art practice as a 鈥渧ermicompost鈥� in which they 鈥渞eappropriate popular canons in order to create from the ruins of an egregore founded on exploitation and control.鈥�
Exploring their non-binary gender identity, 鈥淩ick has turned out to be a real compost mushroom, digesting the toxicity of the mass-media-induced boy-band culture on which they were bottle-fed in childhood in the 1990s,鈥� says the same official agent. From an activist and empathetic perspective, Rick鈥檚 story draws on the codes of North-American culture, analyzing Rick's own contribution to colonialism as well as their own middle-class status. This reading seeks to highlight the articulation of relationships between culture, society, and power.
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