HACHER / VISSER

The exhibition Hacher / Visser aims to establish a point of convergence for Maxime Sanchez’s primary concerns: rapology and rurality. A fervent listener of Southern US rap music (from Memphis, Houston, Baton Rouge, Port Arthur, etc.), he has been developing a body of work that embraces this dual cultural influence for several years. Through domestic, agricultural, and familial objects, he creates imagined intersections between the south of France and certain American states, such as those mentioned above.

By playing with controlled stereotypes, the exhibition also seeks to shape a non-lived nostalgia, an assumed obsolescence, and a suspended sense of time. The translation Haché et Vissé directly references the musical style originating from Houston, known as "chopped and screwed": a remix practice involving a radical slowing down of the tempo and cutting techniques such as scratching or stop-time. Here, Maxime Sanchez draws a direct and literal link to an assembly gesture that is practically systematic within his sculptural practice : involving objects that are cut and regrafted.