Jim Avignon: The Society of the Spectacle

“Jim Avignon’s third solo exhibition at Urban Spree Galerie in Berlin is called “The Society of the Spectacle” and already quotes Guy Debord, the co-founder and mastermind of the Situationists, in its title. In his main work “La société du spectacle” from 1967, Debord describes a society that celebrates the superficial, wants to find fulfilment in consumption, looks at and admires itself in the media and considers everything measurable and buyable….and Debord didn’t even know about the internet and social networks! …”