As part of SITES during Paris + by Art Basel 2022, gb agency is delighted to present the solo show by Omer Fast at Chapelle des Petits-Augustins, Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux Arts de Paris.
Omer Fast’s exhibition of video works is punctuated by sculptures and drawings: portraits of Max Beckmann pinned on some crates, copies of copies of copies exhausting the traumatized face of the German artist, one eye open and the other closed, revealing the void the war has left; and sculptures produced during Covid lockdown, appearing as parasites or mutant forms that have infested the space, constructing a parallel narrative that links the works together. The exhibition is built from stereotypes and archetypes in which masks, ghosts and nomads tell stories from the past that shed light on the present, or perhaps stories from the present that exploit the past in digressions and loops between documentary and fiction. The stories are built from different sources, literary and documentary, questioning the patterns and symbols that constitute them.
