Jacket image: Julien Prévieux, Forget the Money (detail), 2017.

Work, management, economics, politics, control systems, state-of-the-art technologies, and the culture industry are the many “worlds” that Prix Marcel Duchamp winning artist Julien Prévieux’s activities interrogate. The methods of recording movement and gesture developed over the last century and a half led to aesthetic results that recall the formal explorations of modernist art. Playing on this resemblance, Julien Prévieux transforms these records—originally produced for the sake of productivity, profit or surveillance—into pure form. Using map-making, dance, theatre, sculpture, video, and drawing, his work appropriates the vocabulary, mechanisms, and modus operandi of the sectors by which it is informed to highlight their dogmas and excesses. In his solo exhibition presented across both galleries, Prévieux highlights each mechanism’s potential for play, creativity, productivity, and counter-productivity.

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The artist would like to thank Daniel Lebard and Galerie Jousse Entreprise.

The Blackwood Gallery gratefully acknowledges the support of the Canada Council for the Arts, the Ontario Arts Council, and the University of Toronto Mississauga.

The Elements of Influence (and a Ghost) is supported by the Consulate General of France in Toronto, the Institut français, the Department of English and Drama (UTM), and the Jackman Humanities Institute Program for the Arts.

The Elements of Influence (and a Ghost)

Micropublication produced on the occasion of Julien Prévieux's exhibition, The Elements of Influence (and a Ghost), January 18 – March 4, 2017.

Featuring the commissioned essay, The New Graphic Method, by Julien Prévieux, an introduction, and exhibition texts by Christine Shaw, and full colour illustrations throughout.

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