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Ivan Cheng, Milieu (2022). Exhibition view. Image courtesy the artist + Édouard Montassut, Paris.
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Ivan Cheng, Cookie Tower (NY) (2022). Installation view. Image courtesy the artist + Édouard Montassut, Paris.
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Ivan Cheng, Cookie Tower (NY) (2022). Installation view. Image courtesy the artist + Édouard Montassut, Paris.
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Ivan Cheng, Cookie Tower (NY) (2022). Installation view. Image courtesy the artist + Édouard Montassut, Paris.
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Ivan Cheng, Cookie Tower (NY) (2022). Installation view. Image courtesy the artist + Édouard Montassut, Paris.
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Ivan Cheng, Cookie Tower (NY) (2022). Installation view. Image courtesy the artist + Édouard Montassut, Paris.
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Ivan Cheng, Milieu (2022). Exhibition view. Image courtesy the artist + Édouard Montassut, Paris.
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Ivan Cheng, The Waves (2022). Installation view. Image courtesy the artist + Édouard Montassut, Paris.
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Ivan Cheng, The Waves (2022). Installation view. Image courtesy the artist + Édouard Montassut, Paris.
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Ivan Cheng, The Waves (2022). Installation view. Image courtesy the artist + Édouard Montassut, Paris.
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Ivan Cheng, Milieu (2022). Exhibition view. Image courtesy the artist + Édouard Montassut, Paris.
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An array of cultural milieus, waves & notions of the underground in the sculptural & video work of Ivan Cheng

, 16 May 2022
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Milieu, a solo exhibition by Ivan Cheng, is on at Paris’ Édouard Montassut, running April 16 to May 21.

Ivan Cheng, Milieu (2022). Exhibition view. Image courtesy the artist + Édouard Montassut, Paris.

Beside a sculptural tower displaying an ambiguous assortment of cookies, a video titled ‘The Waves’ features the artist performing with themes of pirate radio, design and underground culture, speaking to a confusion of cultural milieus in the digital age. As Raoul Klooker notes in the exhibition text, responding to the video’s title: “Are ‘waves’ still a useful metaphor for paradigm shifts in feminism or musical genres, now that any content can be streamed online from any location?”**

Ivan Cheng’s Milieu is on at Édouard Montassut, Paris, running April 16 to May 21, 2022.

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