Lou FaurouxFR
Lou Fauroux is a visual artist, filmmaker, and DJ whose work spans film, sculpture, and installation. At the core of their practice is an interrogation of the ethical stakes of artificial intelligence and virtual technologies, and what these forces are doing to us as human beings.
Fauroux came to moving image through a community of porn producers and actresses encountered in Los Angeles. Self-described as “a true product of bedroom culture”, their visual language is fluent in the aesthetics of MTV pop spectacle, YouTube music videos, American series pirated via MegaUpload, and sprawling conversation of Tumblr and Reddit. Fauroux reappropriates the images they grew up with, weaving queer subjectivity and constructing new mythologies from the wreckage and wonder of digital culture. In doing so, the artist decrypts the entertainment and tech industries, their social structures of power and excesses. In their narrative, they reflect on the current and future uses of the Internet while speculating on their flaws and potential downfall.
The worlds Fauroux builds are ones in which we have failed. Failed to contain the climate crisis, failed to hold back fascism, failed to address social inequality, totalitarianism, and the unchecked acceleration of technological innovation. Their practice presents speculative futures that feel less like fiction and more like consequence, taking seriously the anthropological rupture already underway and asking, with urgency and without comfort, where we go from here.
