The exhibition “Venus/Disasters” presented at the Galerie Sainte-Réparate in Nice offers a panorama of Yves Hayat’s work, featuring a dozen digital prints on plexiglass and a series of sixteen digital prints on Canson paper (the Masks series).
Since 2000, Yves Hayat has been exploring current events through the lens of sacred representation to create a sensation of eternal recurrence. He continues this research today, leveraging the evolution of his technique, which allows him to better understand the concept of encounter through transparency and light.
Yves Hayat lives in Nice. He works in one of the municipal workshops at Halle Spada.
“Current events followed live (conflicts, destruction, climate ravages, global misery…) and the civilization of appearances (youth, beauty, luxury, promises of happiness…) are indeed the two symbols of this turn of the century. It seemed interesting to me to make these two worlds, which coexist in the media and seem destined never to communicate or even meet, collide.
Yet both are victims, one of appearance, the other of disaster. Beauty is manufactured, the news falsified. Everywhere there is a risk of manipulation, with its share of staging and its share of lies.
My approach is a simple observation and not a critical work or a reflection on the relationships between history, art, and media. It’s the snapshot of a virtual world investing the real until the boundary between them dissolves.”
Exhibition from April 21 to June 10, 2006
GALERIE SAINTE-REPARATE
4, rue Sainte-Réparate – 06300 Nice
Tel. 04 93 80 07 48
Open from Tuesday to Saturday from 10 am to 12 pm and from 2 pm to 6 pm
Free entrance
