In 2017, the YOUNG ARTIST SAMEUL FASSE PRESENTED Le REGARD AILLEURS, “The Look Elsewhere,” an IMMERSIVE WORK AT the PALAIS de TOKYO PARALLEL to PARIS’ fall FASHION WEEK LINEUP. THE EXHIBITION simultaneously MARKED the ROYAL ACADEMY of FINE ART ANTWERP GRADUATE’S debut COLLECTION AND the EMERGENCE of HIS HYBRID PRACTICE, and FASSE EMERGED AS a WUNDERKIND of PERFORMATIVE PRACTICES. Since THEN, HE has CHALLENGED the VERY NOTION of SINGULAR AUTERSHIP, IMMEDIATELY DISSOLVING into COLLECTIVES and COLLABORATIONS.
asse’s exhibition was a —what the art world calls a total body of work—a spectacle that moved between the real and the unreal, the physical and immaterial, and the plastic and the virtual. Unlike other immersive art installations, the viewer experienced a punctum—a fracture in space and time—because they could view the performer but not what the performer themself viewed. Both performer and audience shared the same room yet existed in separate realities. The recorded video of the performance moves between the subjects in a 3-D virtual world, with the piece’s musical composition as the one guiding thread that both viewer and performer share. Thus,
