“i miss you office” recreates the outlines of a fantasy office frozen in the collective imagination of “open space,” the hegemonic symbol the 1980s business. The passing of time on the frozen workspace speaks of the evolution and the palpable mutation of elements that finally reassert themselves on the theatre of adjoining screens, of shared calendars, of removable plywood cells, of the acoustics of a call center, henceforth delocalized. Programmed obsolescence is determined here only by nature and time upon the fragile temporality of industry. It’s an allegory of the present day, a pandemic era of deserted offices where the invisible now overflows, changing and transforming the administrative decor. The last bureaucratic phantoms having fled, ceding place to unsuspected lives eclipsed until now by King Work, imagination and sensitivity have definitively triumphed over industrial authority.
Jean du Sartel
Curated by Chri Frautschi & Nicolas Raufaste @Lokal-int
Romain Sarrot, I miss you office, exhibition view, 2021
Romain Sarrot, Divina Commedia (panels 1), 2021, alluminium, wood, plexiglass, fabric, 240 x 240 x 6cm
Romain Sarrot, Black Dogs, 2021, auto-curing putty, metal hose clamp, acrylic paint, varnish, 30,5x31,5x13,5cm
Romain Sarrot, Divina Commedia (panels 1) (detail), 2021, alluminium, wood, plexiglass, fabric,
240 x 240 x 6cm
Romain Sarrot, I miss you office, exhibition view, 2021
Romain Sarrot, Untitled (metal), 2020, alluminium chromed, rubber seal, 50x30x27cm
Romain Sarrot, Silicone Tournesol, 2021, Silicone, 60 x 22 x 12 cm
Romain Sarrot, Silicone Tournesol (detail), 2021, Silicone, 60 x 22 x 12 cm
Romain Sarrot, Duckface (Remigration) (detail) , 2020, auto-curing putty, 320x27x12cm
Romain Sarrot, You are fired, 2020, paper cups, copper, coffe, varnish,12 x 12 X 7cm