The Curve - Duplicity :

DUPLICITY by Matthieu Bourel
March 2 – April 11, 2020
Presented by the Curve Berlin

Statement
The France-born artist creates a strange blend of classic Hollywood glamour and dystopian body horror through a mixture of hand-cutting techniques and digital manipulation, blurring the lines between truthful historical representation and something a little more surreal.

Press Release

In a wry play on words and in homage to his Dada artist heroes, Matthieu Bourel has coined the term “Data-ism” to describe his cinematic collage work. The France-born, Berlin-based artist creates a strange blend of classic Hollywood glamour and dystopian body horror through a mixture of hand-cutting techniques and digital manipulation, blurring (both physically and metaphorically) the lines between truthful historical representation and something a little more surreal, more dream-like. He revels in the power of combining unexpected visual signifiers and references to create striking new wholes, and delights in forming narratives that are at once strange and familiar.

https://www.artsy.net/show/the-curve-berlin-duplicity-by-matthieu-bourel

http://dojo.electrickettle.fr/files/gimgs/th-432_Screenshot_2026-01-26_at_14-04-00_JPEG_Image_900__600_pixels.png

http://dojo.electrickettle.fr/files/gimgs/th-432_Screenshot_2026-01-26_at_14-04-24_JPEG_Image_900__600_pixels.png

http://dojo.electrickettle.fr/files/gimgs/th-432_Screenshot_2026-01-26_at_15-48-37_JPEG_Image_900__600_pixels.png

http://dojo.electrickettle.fr/files/gimgs/th-432_Screenshot_2026-01-26_at_14-04-29_JPEG_Image_898__599_pixels.png