The exhibition Mammoth Steps proposes an exploration built around the fascination with the past, alluding to a multitude of cultural, scientific and pop-cultural references. This desire to revive and truly live the past is the starting point of Time and place: a day in Pompeii (2025), a multichannel video that takes as its setting an escape room inspired by Pompeii.
Before practising painting within an art school, Kauffmann became known online thanks to DIY videos he published notably on YouTube. This mode of self-presentation, the play with identities and the free sampling of post-internet aesthetics remains an experience that continues to nourish the artist's practice.
In this body of work, the fantastic sits alongside the banal, following the artist's reflection on the ways images circulate, their monetisation and the manner in which they shape social and identity hierarchies.
In coproduction with Halle Nord - Genève
Curators: Claire Hoffmann, Elise Lammer