The practice of Martine Syms (*1988) is distinguished by its boundlessness: her subjects flow across media—publishing, moving image, photography, installation, performance and software programming—dissolving the lines between them. Combining her distinct sense of humor with sharp-witted observations and social commentary, the Los Angeles-based artist moves seamlessly between elaborating fictions and a research-based practice.
Martine Syms, Loser Back Home, installation view, Sprüth Magers, Los Angeles, 2023
Photo: Robert Wedemeyer
Photo: Robert Wedemeyer
Martine Syms
Total
Lafayette Anticipations, Paris
Through February 9, 2025
In her first survey in France, Syms invites visitors into a total work of art engaging with the theater of the everyday and the roles we play in it. Engaging with both the idea of a survey and the “total” found at the bottom of a receipt, the show reconstructs the space of a shop and conflates it with the spaces of the museum and the artist's personal studio. With early works alongside newly produced objects, Total traces the artist's long-standing interest in images and their effect on reality, how they impact the ways in which relationships form, and how they're embedded in the construction of identity, or the “fictioning of self.”
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