Alexandre Yang
Le Dernier moment avant la fin du Monde, 2026
Oil on canvas
100 x 100 cm (39 ⅜ × 39 ⅜ in)
Copyright The Artist
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Inspired by a story the artist's mother told him — as a little girl she played in a cabin in the jungle while her country was at war. Yang reimagines...
Inspired by a story the artist's mother told him — as a little girl she played in a cabin in the jungle while her country was at war. Yang reimagines it in present-day France: an evening spent playing Dungeons & Dragons and pretending to be soldiers. Like auto-fiction, role-play becomes a way to project oneself into a character built from scratch. It marks the starting point of the fiction that runs through the surrounding paintings.
Reference: Robert Campin (workshop), Mérode Altarpiece (central panel), c. 1427–32. The Met Cloisters,
New York. https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/470304
Reference: Robert Campin (workshop), Mérode Altarpiece (central panel), c. 1427–32. The Met Cloisters,
New York. https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/470304
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