Reynold Reynolds & Patrick Jolley

The inhabitants of a burning house, absorbed by their daily activities, don’t seem to be paying attention to the unfolding drama. In the kitchen, the living room and the bedroom, the flames have taken hold of the furniture while objects are melting from the heat. In this stifling interior, the fire reaches the occupants who – unable to react or refusing reality – begin to burn too. Patrick Jolley (1964 – 2012) and Reynold Reynolds (born in 1966, lives and works in New York and Berlin) paint a worrying portrait of our interiors, inhabited and consumed by fire, paralyzed by denial. The poetic and at the same time macabre representation of dramas and catastrophes is at the heart of the collaboration between Reynold Reynolds and the photographer Patrick Jolley. Their video and photographical installations draw the viewer into frightening scenarios that play on our personal or collective fears of domestic accidents and cataclysms.