Julien Bismuth, "An image as the ______ of a surface"

This young French artist presents a series of conceptual works dealing with the notion of opposites. An audio piece, for example, features the voice of an actor reading texts in a tone that contradicts the meaning of the passages. Similarly, black-and-white images of a hand crumpling, folding or otherwise manipulating a sheet of paper have been printed directly to the wall, shown alongside the silk-screen frames used to apply them, with each image in reverse clearly visible in the mesh. In another play on opposites, the artist insists that it's the silk-screen stencils used to create the images, and not the images themselves, that are the artwork.