Jan 30

Jan 30 Thomas Lélu

Let’s start with the Shakespearean „To be or not to be - that is here the question“: What do you think lies hidden behind the selfie culture of nowadays?
Through the selfie, there are three things: that of looking at oneself, that of being looking at and that of being looked at while looking at oneself - to which I will add that of watching themselves watching themselves being watched.

Yourself are very active deconstructing and reconstructing the context of images on Instagram: What does this recontextualisation do for you?
A lot of pleasure.

Which Philosopher do you identify most with at the moment?
Peter Sloterdijk who notably wrote an essential book entitled "You have to change your life"

You are a writer yourself: What drives you to the creation of print content?
Books are immortal.

Not to judge the book by its cover, but: If you were a book - which one would you be?
„The fall“ by Albert Camus.

You are also Art Director at „La Cité" a Parisian well-known gallery:
Tell us a bit about your latest exhibition there and why you choose what you choose.
This is an exhibition of Ill-Studio and Deewee, the exhibition is called „Incomplete Inventory“. In this project, Ill-Studio explores a subjective idea of “modernity in music”. They do it through the endless collection of analog and digital machines gathered over nearly 30 years by Stephen and David Dewaele: the brothers behind Soulwax, 2ManyDjs and Deewee, amongst many other projects.

Each musical instrument possesses a “biographical” trajectory of its own. It is a channel through which technical innovations or aesthetic sensibilities transit, as personal memories or collective destinies do. We are aware of the importance of the TR-808, in the emergence of techno. The Roland System 700 in the disco productions by Giorgio Moroder or the Linn LM-1 as Prince’s signature drumsound in the 80s.