The tableaux are made from electromagnetic shielding fabric, a conductive material used to create radiation-free enclosures.

These impenetrable surfaces are overlaid with grids of domestic aluminium foil—a material also associated with electro-sensitive protection and paranoia—which are then exposed to various corrosive liquids, deteriorating into bleeding surfaces

of green and silver. The purposefully awkward dimensions synthesize object with architecture, evoking doors, windows, or motherboards, as well as meteorological and infra-red imagery.

This artworks become the background to a photographic parade of mannequins, knick-knacks, and other forms of dead stock that accumulate in Les Arcades des Champs Elysées. Once a bath house and famous cabaret, the passage now stands as an anachronistic ‘non-place’, liquified by the globalised flows of bodies and commodities, a tourist trap where various incongruous items are consumed. Over many months, Echard shot these items in their ‘natural environment’, casting them in an inanimate psycho-drama where humans have been replaced by their supposed objects of desire and identification.

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