Grégory Chatonsky - The Invention of Destruction :: May 8 - July 5, 2008 :: Opening reception: May 8, 6-9 pm :: Galerie Poller, 547 West 27th Street, #207, New York City.

Grégory Chatonsky’s body of work, including interactive installations, networked and urban devices, photographs and sculptures, speaks to the relationship between technologies and affectivity, the flow that defines our time and attempts to create new forms of fiction. Chatonsky’s work is inspired by the increasing aesthetization of the destruction in the mass medias and it questions the relation between a form and a matter. The three bodies of work shown in the exhibition are Dislocation II (2006), Dislocation III (2007) and Readonlymemories (2003).

Dislocation II is a series of photographs, videos and sculptures representing house and office’s furniture in various state of disintegration. When a destroyed object isn’t recognizable any more? This series questions the abstraction and the representation by slowing down to the extreme the dislocation of the objects. The dislo-cated pieces of furniture are produced from the same computer’s files that are then translated in synthesis process and stereo lithography.

Dislocation III has the same approach than Dislocation II. How do we feel if we see a street disintegrated? The city, the streets the sidewalks on which the pedestrians and Millions of flaneurs walked throughout the centuries. The asphalt is churned up, tattered, detached like the fragments of an iceberg drifting off. The patchwork in the images reveals the strong meaning safe ground does have to us.

Readonlymemories is an examination of the known and the unknown in films. We have all seen the apartment building in Rear Window, Dorothy’s bedroom in Blue Velvet and the twin brothers from Dead Ringers, yet we have never actually seen them on the screen.