This is Laurent Condominas’s first show in the US. His photos focus notably on his family and friends, a “band of Outsiders”, which would become part of the 1970’s artistic avant -garde. A “poetry of everyday life” appears in this work, which takes small details of banal situations and elevates them into political, if not sometimes philosophical, comments. Condominas use of light & color, his attention to detail, and his sense of the absurd also draw a parallel with the Californian’s avant- garde of the same time. Hence his work captures the freshness and innocence which at the time, symbolized youth culture. In a more nostalgic light, they ultimately reveal the end of an era, the turning point when consumerism and normality took over. A figure of the 1960s’ French avant-garde, Condominas was part of the ‘Zanzibar Films’ group known as the “Dandies of May 1968”. He appeared in Andy Warhol’s factory movie production by Morrissey and Michel Auder, Ultraviolet, Viva Malanga, and has been published in Elle, Vogue, L.A Times, Art in America, and TATE. Condominas has also shown work internationally at Space Nikki, Tokyo, Musée de Las Palmas, and many other museums.
Here is Elsewhere gallery
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