tbh i dunno if i have feelings

tbh i dunno if i have feelings is thought as a liaison of both universal notions (dematerialization and metaphysical) and ultra-intimate others (diary and daily feelings). Based on a set of interconnected works, the exhibition develops proposals that can act both alone and in organization. Polycarbonate, a transparent material, interacts with its environment and is reacting according to the adjacent atmosphere and other external datas, creating a complete junction (such as natural and artificial light that put the pieces in a constant recreation mutable by transparency).

Here, several layers of material/dematerial are responding to each other. This interest in the network is then integrated within the creative process, through the use of communication strategies (invitation and social networks) as well as social and transactional relationships inherent in the act of exhibiting (opening), such as the idea of a speculative and instant society.

« At first sight, it is a distance that is established with the work of Ben Elliot. A polycarbonate sheet, a transparent plastic sail, a title evoking a lack of emotion... except an assumed love for his IPhone. From this aesthetic exudes the idea of trans-humanism: the incarnation of human into networks such as the Internet, and its dematerialization into online data. Yet it is the debate between tangible and intangible that is replayed in the works between transparency and tangibility - between life drive and death instinct as Freud would write. But this metaphor is frequently used to describe the two sides of the same coin: the economy - and especially the capitalist economy. Ben Elliot’s works are burnt and thermoformed... And Jeremy Rifkin to describe our time like this when we have to pay the entropic bill of an economy deeply rooted in the laws of thermodynamics and despite the omerta on the relationship between speculation and energy. » — Charlotte Cosson & Emmanuelle Luciani