Nothing is lost, nothing is created, everything is transformed. For Robin Lopvet, this formula sums up all artistic creation. A new work can be summed up as an assemblage of two pre-existing things. Collage is, in the end, the only form of creation. Everything Robin Lopvet makes comes close to an immense and serious parody, without cynicism. Like a constant in a general lack of meaning and flavor. Our world is full of forms and materials to salvage, transform and divert. It is just a language game. All you have to do is bend down to pick them up, take them apart, tinker with them and put them back together. We have become Swiss army knives, toolboxes. Whatever the medium, the process remains the same. Robin Lopvet documents the transformation of the consumer society into a society of salvage. Everything is made by hand, cobbled together. Since technical mastery no longer matters, and we can train ourselves in anything from home, the world is within reach of anyone with an internet connection.
