Maxime Rossi – American wedding

Following in the footsteps of Max Ernst in Arizona or travelling along the Congo River in homage to Sister Korita Kent, Maxime Rossi takes us on a hallucinatory, psychedelic journey where pop culture, astrology and mysticism collide.

Using sound and visual collage, Maxime Rossi elegantly practices the art of remixing and sampling to take us on a hallucinatory journey somewhere between a synaesthetic experience and a daydream.

With no hierarchy between low and high culture, Maxime Rossi assembles and collides multiple references from Pink Floyd to Max Ernst and musical comedy. But behind this work, peppered with borrowings from pop culture, psychedelic music and the history of art, it is the desire to lose one’s bearings and temporality that interests him.

For the American Wedding exhibition, Maxime Rossi is taking over one floor of the museum to create a special installation based on his last two ambitious video projects, Real Estate Astrologie and Sister Ship. From the desert landscapes of Arizona to the slow navigation of the Congo River, Maxime Rossi paints a two-faced portrait of Marx Ernst and Sister Corita Kent. Far from attempting to reconstruct history, Maxime Rossi invites us into an unlikely union between these two tutelary figures.

American Wedding is a hallucinatory journey through a new landscape that verges on the operatic and the concert. The format of the exhibition has been rethought and re-orchestrated to offer different activations and to play even more on the live format and direct experience. Maxime Rossi plays at losing us between reality and fiction, certainty and reverie.