Locked
The exhibition "Locked" was created and presented in Second Life in April and May 2020, during the first lockdown in France. I needed to express the contradictory feelings I had during this very particular moment when half of the planet was locked up to face an invisible but implacable threat, which was silently attacking and killing the weakest, chasing them into the resuscitation beds of overcrowded hospitals.
I wrote four scenes, illustrated by my images and the sculptures of Mistero Hifeng, written in the form of a short story in four parts that begins with a daze and continues through the story of drunk God and a child Christ whom the police kill before he can preach.
The space is composed of an entrance in the center and four doors that open onto a stage. Around and above the door of the first scene "Sideration", I assembled images extracted from Google Images that mix images of everyday life with violent images.
The higher you look up to the ceiling, the more violent the images are. Above the door, an image of Pdt Trump, made up like the Joker, is the center of the assemblage. His behavior and ideology of omnipotence and arrogance have been responsible for the death of tens, even hundreds of thousands of Americans, many times more than died in the 9/11 attack.
A journey through our voluntary lockdown to avoid life
The order in which I think the rooms should be visited is: "Sideration", then "Glimmer", then "Breakdown", and finally "Amnesia".
"Amnesia" is an attempt to imagine three futures after the voluntary lockdown that has been ours, and that has perhaps always been ours since the advent of the industrial society that coincides with that of consumption.
That is to say, at the climax of our withdrawal into ourselves, our illusions of infinite growth, and our divorce from the rest of life.