Editor: white light, Dusseldorf

„Homage to the young boy who dropped his pants, in front of an old lady at Gare Saint-Lazare, Paris.“
(Jimmy Robert, Painful Singularities)

Painful Singularities is Jimmy Robert's second artist book. Three black-and-white photographs of a
man, which might have been taken with a distance of years, are standing central to Painful Singularities. Starting from the man's more and more self-confident posing in front of the camera, Jimmy Robert analyses the question of representation. He has written a series of short texts, which are grouped around the images like a loose net of poetic comments on memories and pain, sensibility,
masculinity and loneliness.
In his collages, drawings, films, videos and performances, Jimmy Robert has dealt with the represen-
tational power of images of masculinity. In this spirit/sense, Painful Singularities is a literary extension of his exhibition manifold centrefold at the project space white light.

Biography
Jimmy Robert was born 1975 in Guadaloupe, France. He graduated from Goldsmiths' College, London and the Rijksakademie, Amsterdam. Solo exhibitions and film screenings include the Tate Gallery, London, and the Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris. He lives and works in Brussels.

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