Romain Blanck

A door opens incorrectly, an actor disappears, a towel changes color... nothing escapes the sharp eye of Michael & Michael, the duo that detects slip-ups and editing errors. The title of this exhibition, 'Faux raccord,' the third solo show by artist Romain Blanck (Düsseldorf, 1995) at the gallery, comes from a web miniseries from 2010 broadcast on AlloCiné. With humor and sarcasm, this series shows us the continuity errors and anachronisms in various films.

The two characters in voiceover share the same first name, which they constantly play with by repeating it in each episode. Similarly, all the paintings in this exhibition share the same Photoshop file as their source, consisting of scans of various pieces of found paper where unknown people have tested markers and pencils. This source file was the starting point for each painting, in which the same shapes and lines have been duplicated, replaced by similar ones, covered with filters, and flipped from one painting to another, creating a set of false twins.

While the paintings "L2+R2" are placed together and show no interruption within them, the two sets "L1+R5" and "L6+R4" are connected with parts that are not their perfect match. As a result, clear "errors" are noticeable, from a line that abruptly ends in the center to a shape that is cut in half and not completed on the other side. Everywhere, there is a sense of urgency dictated by the repetition of the same elements in several paintings, which reinforces the artificial spontaneity of the works.

The editing of the web series uses snippets of films to create jokes and responses to the two voiceovers. Similarly, the paintings appear to be edited with painted stickers covering different parts of them, suggesting their two-dimensionality and image. The stickers also seem anachronistic to each other, as some are taken directly from a social media app, while others were photographed in the city. All were captured with the artist's phone at very different times before being exhibited together on the surface of the painting, vying for the viewer's attention and succeeding, even when painted very small.