Romain Gavras and Surkin announce Gener8ion exhibition at 180 Studios
The exhibition features seven world premiere short films and a new immersive sound installation.
Following the major success of their recent Yung Lean video collaboration, Romain Gavras and Surkin, the filmmaker-musician duo behind some of the most viscerally distinctive visual work of the past decade, open their first major exhibition at 180 Studios on June 12.
Visions of 2034 takes over the venue's underground spaces with 10 multimedia works exploring peripheral dystopias and futures shaped by distortion.
The films span youth culture across the globe - from Leeds to Mumbai, Idaho to Athens, LA to Hangzhou - featuring collaborators including Yung Lean, 070 Shake, Jamie xx, Yannis from Foals, Charlize Theron, and choreographer Damien Jalet. Visions of 2034 centers an alternative world built on peripheral dystopias and futures glimpsed from the margins.
Surkin has been a central figure in French electronic music since the mid-2000s, releasing remixes of the likes of Justice, Kavinsky and DJ Mehdi and collaborating with M.I.A. Gavras, meanwhile, has directed some of the defining music videos of the past two decades for M.I.A., Justice, Jay-Z and Kanye West, and Jamie xx.
Visions of 2034 extends their Gener8ion collaboration into a fully immersive environment, with sound design integral to each of the works.
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