For his first exhibition at the Galerie VU’, Nicolas Comment presents Mexico City Waltz. The series is inspired by three texts: Jack Kerouac’s Tristessa, Malcolm Lowry’s Under the Volcano, and Antonin Artaud’s Voyage au pays des Tarahumaras. These texts served Comment as keys to the city. Although he set out following in the footsteps of these authors, he eventually found his own way, creating a visual and subjective poem about Mexico today. In opposition to our current catastrophic vision of the country, Mexico City Waltz celebrates its beauty and sensuality. We meet three young women, “brown as a berry” (Lowry) who are the series’ true heroes. Through them, the whole of Mexico City appears in its intimacy, as if the metropolis itself had been laid bare.
Nicolas Comment
Mexico City Waltz
Through May 26, 2012
Galerie VU’
Hôtel Paul Delaroche
58 rue Saint-Lazare
75009 Paris
+33 1 53 01 85 85
