After graduating from the Royal College of Art, Cerith Wyn Evans began his career as a video and filmmaker. He was filmaker Derek Jarman’s assistant on a number of films and also collaborated with the British choreographer Michael Clark.

In the 1990s he began making sculpture and installation. He investigates ciphers and codes, exploring themes of identity and the ambiguity of appearance through various media (neon lights, firework texts, films, photographs, mirrors).

Brought together for the first time in Paris are a series of lamps which light up alternately translating very personal choices of literary texts into morse code. Coded language works like a virus penetrating perceptions so as to question expectations. The result is an unexpected and poetic environment.

Cerith Wyn Evans has had a number of solo exhibitions, notably at the Tate Britain in London in 2000, the Berkeley Art Museum of San Francisco in 2003, the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston in 2004 and at the Graz Kunsthaus in 2005.

…… in which something happens all over again for the very first time is his first retrospective exhibition in France.

DATES AND LOCATION

9 June – 17 September

Open Tuesday to Sunday from 10h00 – 22h00

Musée d’Art moderne de la Ville de Paris / ARC
11 avenue du Président Wilson
75116 Paris
Tel: +33 (0)1 53 67 40 00

Web link: www.mam.paris.fr