With Freeride In The Dirt, Nicky Lapierre continues his meticulous inventory of the different eras of his life, and at the same time arbitrates all the conversations that arise from this human-sized archive. Between teenage angst, the solitude of the great outdoors and the sad folklore of the American dream, his falsely naïve works bring together the joy (because of freedom) and the pain (because of solitude) of being a lonesome cowboy, in a world where images are born and die in rapid succession. Freeride In The Dirt draws all its material from this almost organic decomposition of pop culture references, teenage memories and inhospitable spaces that were once a cabin, eventually becoming a hallucinatory whole that you drive through as if you were at the wheel of a muscle car, rediscovering at each landscape the agonising but familiar feeling of already being on the edge of the abyss. While Casper is buddies with Buggs Bunny, and Piggy is not far from having sold his soul to the devil, Nicky Lapierre’s works are above all lucid images of the metaverse in which we live – a world where the cursors of absurdity and violence have been pushed to the limit, and where the question of the end of the world is already obsolete. Freeride In The Dirt is set in the programmed future of our societies, saturated with images, concepts and symbolism, and attempts to respond to the urgent need to deal with overflow, whether philosophical or material.
Text by Nanténé Traoré
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