Cerith Wyn Evans

Born in 1958 in Wales, he lives and works in London.

The work of Cerith Wyn Evans is the result of a complex thought process, nourished by references, from classical music to the kitschy hits of the 1980s to the Situationists, via the Beat Generation. The artist challenges the viewer's perceptual certainties and sometimes provokes a real "disruption of the senses". His large concave mirror Inverse, Reverse, Perverse, in which an inverted neon sign indicating the TIX3 exit is reflected (1994), is the result of this desire to disrupt, as are his photographs of exceptional flowers, such as the giant Arum, which blooms every hundred years, or this orchid watered with his own urine, even though he drank alcohol from the plant itself.

The Dreamachine installation, presented for the first time in Europe, is directly inspired by the Dreamachine of the painter and writer Brion Gysin, a friend of William Burroughs, and is linked to films chosen by the artist. It encourages people to see, to discover hallucinatory visions behind their closed eyes, and even to create their own mental images.