Backslash

For his fifth exhibition at Backslash, French artist Rero reinvests the gallery space with his famous scored out words. With major installations and also more intimate artworks, he suggests an acerbic vision of the attachment our societies give to social networks and to mass consumerism. Multidisciplinary and insatiable artist, his attraction to social sciences and literature allows him to develop reflections on our way of life and to transpose, throughout his works, a certain form of ambivalence introduced by the thick black line. Should we take what Rero shows us for granted? The artist questions the viewer but also leaves him free for his own criticism. Rero’s work has been exhibited at a wide range of museums, including the Centre Pompidou and Grand Palais in Paris, MAC/VAL in Vitry-sur-Seine (south of Paris), MAC in Bogota, Montresso Foundation in Marrakech, Art Science Museum in Singapore and Caixa Cultural in Rio de Janeiro, Sao Paulo and Brasilia.