Mitte, Berlin
Cyprien Gaillard
Retinal Rivalry
Sprüth MagersCyprien Gaillard's new stereoscopic film, Retinal Rivalry (2024), is an entrancing journey through Germany's urban landscape and its layers of historical and social significance. A decade after the premiere of Nightlife in 2015, Monika Sprüth and Philomene Magers are honoured to present the German debut of Gaillard's major new film installation during Gallery Weekend Berlin. Building on his previous exploration of the sculptural qualities of three-dimensional moving images, the work extends beyond the confines of the screen. By harnessing cutting-edge technology to its full potential, Gaillard offers an expanded, sharpened and deeply affecting novel view of the world around us. The solo show shares its title with the film and is completed by new wall sculptures. Cyprien Gaillard (b. 1980) works across a range of media including film, video, photography, collage, installation and live performance. His extraordinary cosmos gives new form to such phenomena as civilizational upheaval and geological time. Concerned with the wreckage of modernity and the intersections between human artefacts, urban geography and psychology, the Paris and Berlin-based artist’s work embraces a poetry of entropy that rearranges history to shed new light on the present.