Renaud Jerez (b. 1982, lives and works in Berlin) reveals mechanisms of contamination and consumption in his installation works. He creates avatars out of PVC tubing, sports gear, camouflage paint, latex gloves and sneakers; shown alongside slick videos that hijack the aesthetics of beauty product commercials. These works depict how we have been continually subjected to the industries geared around self-maintenance of the physical body. Headless, amputated, bandaged, these skeletal figures confront the viewers with their open pipe endings and wires, gesturing towards a bionic uncertain future.

Drawn to the scratched and fogged surfaces of Plexiglas covering maps in the Parisian metro, Renaud Jerez recuperates these sheets to create a floor installation at the Palais de Tokyo. The Plexiglas surfaces register additional scuff marks of viewers walking on them, while reflecting other artworks in the exhibition. Their transparency forms a barely perceptible threshold that viewers must traverse.