Aude Pariset manipulates everyday objects in her examination of the connections between design and origin. Between deadpan, dark humor and intrinsic nostalgia, her appropriation of pop-culture data is a nod towards information mash-ups and other such digital goings on. With the origins of an object rendered meaningless in the process of mass production and globalization, it is adaptations, combinations and contexts, Pariset seems to suggest, that allow us to express our individuality today. The Versailles-born artist takes the most banal items and re-imagines them in her sculptures and installations, distorting all recognizable features to leave us with objects that are strangely mutated yet familiar. Her piece hooked/don’t last(care) for example, re-appropriates Lee Lozano’s famous Peel from 1964, giving the diptych the ideal shape for a skating ramp.
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