Elise Mazac and Robert Drowilal have worked together as the Mazaccio & Drowilal duo since 2009. Their work explores an abundance of various images – found in the media – which they appropriate and arrange into series that are both glitzy and caustic. In times of widespread addiction to images and social media, conceptual art, Pictures Generation and the Capitalist Realism movement of the 1960s also contribute elements to their reflection. When cultural industries use the pretence of information and entertainment to disseminate a consumerist ideology that shapes individual and collective imaginations, dreams and contemporary identities, M&D do not hesitate to alter images in order to divert them from their original use and to imbue them with a critical dimension. Through humour and derision, they question these archetypal forms, deconstruct representations and in doing so put the way we view the world into perspective. Through their use of appropriation, they subvert the notion of what an author is and blur the gap between professional and amateur, original and copy, work and fragment, in an act that combines artistic freedom and tribute to both history and the present.

Martine Michard

Translated by Lucy Pons, 2022

Artistes

General Idea
Isa Genzken
Louise Lawler
John Baldessari
Piero Gilardi
Roy Lichtenstein
Haim Steimbach
Fischli / Weiss
Luigi Ghirri
Cindy Sherman
Gilbert & George
Robert Heinecken
Barbara Kruger
Robert Barry
Ed Ruscha
Martin Parr
Jon Rafman
Claude Closky
William Wegman

Écrivain·es

Siri Hustvedt
Jorge Luis Borges
Adolfo Bioy Casares
Raymond Queneau
Ursula LeGuin
Francis Ponge
Italo Calvino
Franz Kafka
Tao Lin
Robert Walser

Philosophes

Jean Baudrillard
Slavoj Zizèk
Peter Sloterdijk
Christopher Lasch

Essayistes

Mona Chollet
WJT Mitchell
Donna Haraway
Paul Watzlavick
François Cusset
Stanley Fish

Matériaux

  • Papiers (C-prints, ink jet prints, Scotch siglé, Cellophane, sopalin…)
  • Bois (Portes isoplanes découpées, bois peint)
  • Objets ready-made (cage de hamster, gym balls, matériel pédagogique Montessori, sangles, jouets pour chiens…)

Techniques

Collage numérique et analogique
Impressions jet d’encre et UV
Tirages Chromogènes
Peinture aérosol
Pochoirs
Emballage
Découpe
Peintures murales
Papier-peints
Display

Outils

Imprimantes, ciseaux, cutter, colle, agrafes, ordinateur, plotter de découpe, bombes de peinture

Gestes

Accumuler
Assembler
Citer
Collectionner
Collecter
Coller
Combiner
Confronter
Décontextualiser
Déconstruire
Détourner
Détourer
Disposer
Dupliquer
Editer
Imbriquer
Juxtaposer
Parodier
Rapprocher
Recycler
Sampler
Sélectionner

Mots-clés

Collimage
Culture visuelle
Collage
Paraphotographie
Post-photographie
Recyclage
Remake
Remix
Typologie
Livre d’artiste
Assemblages
Ready-made
Appropriation
Sampling
Intertextualité
Photo-objects
Identification
Identité
Célébrités
Role models
Branding
Humour
Parodie

Titres

French Touch
As you like it
Iconoclash