Image: Julia Scher, Wonderland
Exhibition view: Julia Scher, Wonderland, Esther Schipper, Berlin, 2018. Photo: Andrea Rossetti.
Exhibitions
May 17, 2022

Julia Scher, Wonderland

Maison Populaire



Julia Scher

Wonderland
Maison Populaire
9 bis Rue Dombasle
93100 Montreuil
May 25 – July 15, 2022
www.maisonpop.fr
Opening: Tuesday May 24, 6pm–9pm


Between 1996 and 1997, Julia Scher photographed seven children wearing pink uniforms: Lena, Grace, Andy, Andre, Brandon, Jodi and Zoë. Some of them held up batons or gas masks, others just stared defiantly at the camera. In the following months, Scher enlarged these images and integrated them into an installation which traveled and evolved in time: 1997, Chicago; 1998, New York; 2000, Bordeaux ; 2018–2019, Berlin. Over the years, the principle has remained the same: a child-sized control desk surrounded by distorting mirrors bathed in twilight-colored lights. The recorded voice of the artist warns the audience: “There are live cameras filming you [...] Attention. Your size may change”. This is Wonderland, an upside-down world where children watch over adults downsized in the reflections of mirrors.

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