'The Mythologies Of Christopher Williams' by Christine Coste
2022
Reflections on desire, the photographs of the American artist presented at David Zwirner ironically use the codes of the advertising imagination.
Paris. Christopher Williams' last exhibition in France dates back to that organized in 1999 by the Marian Goodman gallery in Paris. Also the focus proposed by the David Zwirner gallery on the American artist, one of the most influential in the field of conceptual photography, is an event. The choice of works, some of which come from his major photographic project “For Example: Eighteen Lessons on Industrial Society”, is also part of the catch-up session in relation to the exhibition “Footwear (Adapter for Use)”. , presented in 2020 in the brand's New York spaces and composed exclusively of recent and mostly unpublished photographs. In Paris, the selection on the contrary brings together emblematic photographs taken by Williams between 2007 and 2017 and exhibited for the majority of them in the retrospective presented successively in 2014-2015 at the Art Institute of Chicago, at the MoMA in New York and at the Whitechapel Gallery in London under the title “The Production Line of Happiness”.
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