Oslo Kahn
Fictional Artist – 2021
Oslo Kahn is a fictional artist who practices 3d imagery. It was created during the 2021 lockdown. His work has been exhibited in the form of digital prints, notably at the Plateforme gallery, Paris.
I was his worker.
About Oslo Kahn, by Eric Vernhes:
" This is where Oslo Kahn's work moves me because it evokes the current state of disruption between technological progress and well-being, between economic growth and the conditions for possible survival. I don't know if consumer objects "whisper" but in any case they are the emanations of powerful forces, disseminated and elusive, which are no longer reconcilable with other forces: those that animate us, that make us love and hope.
I will finally quote a Simondon specialist, Pascal Chabot:
"Three faces coexist within us: a self seeking its place in a system made up of protective glass and screens; a subject split by the ultra-forces of a globalization that creates as much as it destroys; and finally a precious self marked by the taste of existing, the search for balance and the taste of others. How can we invent a convergence between these three facets of ourselves? How can we escape the impoverishing dualism that results from the escalation between weakened systems and uninhibited ultra-forces?"
This is certainly a question of the same order that the humanoids of Oslo Kahn ask themselves . Like us, they are strangers lost in a world that should nevertheless be theirs. The attention of the spectator is not drawn to them, nor to the technical object, but to the in-between, the void, the abyss that separates them, the feeling of "strangeness" that one feels when faced with Oslo Kahn 's work is in fact the manifestation of a vertigo in front of an abyss into which we really risk falling.
