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Jérôme Mayer’s artistic work probes the temporary nature of our existence. The artist here presents a video art installation specifically created for the showcase and its environment. Slow pace sequences are shown on the entire surface of the window. In these sequences, blurry frontal images of parts of the face of the artist get mixed up with mysterious organic steam images pulled from distant places. The artwork functions in the public space like an open window to the private space, a kind of intimate and distant selfie. The street is viewed pragmatically : a passageway. The sound integration of a bass line, composed by Farida Amadou with whom he collaborates in several projects, makes the window vibrate dully just as the chronometer of the video appears, establishing a temporal and corporal link between the artist and the observer of the shown artwork. The ephemeral images offered to the eyes suggest the impermanence of our reality in real time.

Jérôme Mayer is a plastic artist, a curator and a teacher in videography and multidisciplinary master at the ESAVL. He inspires and connects artistic projects from multiple backgrounds. He graduated from the ENSB-A (Paris), studied and worked as an artist’s assistant – for Jeff Wall, Mark Lewis, Joe Ben Jr – abroad until 2000 (in Canada, Arizona and New Mexico) before becoming the co-director of Les Brasseurs arts center in Liege from 2014 to 2019 where he developed the Jeunes Artistes sub-branch and organized regular public meetings between professionals of the contemporary art scene. He currently initiates independent curatorial or performative projects linked to different structures that combine various artistic practices in Belgium and France.