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Seripop is the name under which Yannick Desranleau and Chloe Lum collaborate on visual art and experimental design. Well known for their output of screenprinted posters, the duo has shown their work in numerous solo and group exhibitions across nine countries. Their work has been reproduced in a wide variety of publications, including Print, How, Plazm, Tokion, XLR8R and Mojo. Despite their iconoclastic design work and low-profile clients, they have won several design awards and have been featured in such books as Steven Heller’s New Vintage Type and John Foster’s New Masters of Poster Design. The founding unit of the One-Hundred-Sided Die, a collectively run artist studio in the Mile End neighbourhood of Montreal, Canada, Seripop recently constructed an installation of tri-dimensional sculptural screenprints for a solo show at Gateshead, England’s Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art. They are also produced a limited-edition print during their residency at Northern Print Studio in Newcastle, England (in conjunction with Northern Print Biennale), and are currently working on a book of new work that will be published by Soundscreen Design .

Desranleau and Lum are also musicians; when they are not working in their print studio, they are touring with the noise-rock band AIDS Wolf (as well as their drums-and electronics project Hamborghinni). AIDS Wolf’s new EP, Dusting off the Sphynx, is due out in September 2009 on Skin Graft Records.

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In 2005 Seripop started experimenting with sculptural print installations. The installations are aesthetically informed by poster making and comprise of large totem-like folded origami structures that look both like buildings and meat grinders. These sculptures and environments around them are made with screenprinted stock that is folded or pasted in overlapping layers on the gallery walls and floors, much like the layers of posters that accumulate on city walls.

Ultimately, the installations are abstracted visual comments on the relations between urban landscape and design, graphic design, the evolution of form within fine arts and the urban person. This is made by the use of imaginary ‘logotypes’ and forms evoking the urban environment, art and design history and clichés. Screenprinting on paper is a medium that is
historically associated with these subjects; its flexibility allows the dimensions necessary for the installations to put the viewer in context.