Screenlove, Wait for me

Following the presentations of Screenlove at Unseen Amsterdam in 2018, Galeristes in 2018, and Art Paris in 2019, Intervalle is dedicating an exhibition in 2020 to Julien Mignot’s project, presented for the first time in the gallery space. Through photographs that draw on the conventions of the digital world, Mignot observes a form of intimacy now largely experienced through screens: looking at someone from a distance, waiting for a response, scrolling through images, discovering a body or a face even before meeting a person. The project explores this new form of closeness, which allows us to keep others constantly within sight while keeping them at a distance.

For this first gallery presentation, Mignot has collaborated with the artist Lasson to create a video and sound installation that gives physical form to this experience. The images are interwoven with video sequences and a soundscape that evoke the continuous flow of screens: appearances, repetitions, interruptions, and shifts in rhythm. The viewer is thus placed in a situation similar to what they experience in front of their phone or computer, moving from one image to another without ever fully grasping what is happening. Screenlove thus becomes a portrait of a generation whose relationships, desire, and intimacy are now built as much through images as through real-life encounters.