Jérôme Chazeix, We’re building a City, a Parade for Lagos, performance, Lagos Biennial 2019.
Jérôme Chazeix, We’re building a City, a Parade for Lagos, installation view, Lagos Biennial 2019.
Born France (1976), lives and works in Berlin, Germany
We’re building a City, a Parade for Lagos 2019
18 wax print costumes; 7 batik flags adorned with prints and text, wood stand and video
Courtesy of the artist
This iteration of Jérôme Chazeix’s We’re Building a City project consists of flags, costumes, and filmic documentation of a street performance that occurred in Lagos just days before the opening of the biennial. As with prior iterations of the work, notably one that occurred in Amsterdam in 2013, here Chazeix combines different mediums and physical environments in an effort to harness the energy of the city and stimulate human interactions. This elaborates the artist’s belief that artworks possess the capacity to stimulate unexpected and meaningful fusions between humans, natural forms, and built environments.
