Yves Scherer: What is Real?

Yves Scherer is fascinated by the boundaries that separate and merge the public and private spheres of human interactions. Along with concepts such as reality, virtuality, fan fiction, alterity, and appropriation, the public and the personal are reiterative themes in Yves’s oeuvre. For example, in some of his newest sculptures, made of painted aluminum, the artist transforms private moments, presenting them as a public sculpted reality. Meanwhile, as part of his ongoing lenticular series, Yves creates alternative realities for celebrity personalities who belong to the public sphere of Hollywood’s star system, which he integrates into his personal narrative. By playing with these themes and shifting from one to the other, Yves evidences the porosities between both spheres, which ultimately influence each other: “I like to play with that in a way: I mix images that I took on a family vacation with a picture that Mario Sorrenti took of Kate Moss when they were a romantic couple many years ago.”