This artwork features a flayed denim jacket, marked with texts evoking music and hallucinatory substances. On the back, a star formed by star-shaped nails frames the painting of a dead bird.

"Mue (Heaven)" (Shedding/Molting (Heaven)) explores the artist's metamorphosis within a mercenary entertainment industry. It reuses the object from Brian De Palma's film "Phantom of the Paradise," which itself reinterprets Gaston Leroux's "The Phantom of the Opera." These references highlight the tension between artistic creation and commercial exploitation.

The principle of re-use, recurrent in Vincent Mesaros's practice, is illustrated here by the perpetuation of this critique, reinvested by De Palma, and by the use of a worn garment. This garment, carrying a memory, is reconfigured into an expressive surface. This gesture signifies a thought of continuity, even fatality, where time-marked materials become a critical support. The shedding operates literally and symbolically: what was once worn becomes an exhibition object, a metaphor for an artistic identity in perpetual transformation.

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The work questions the quest for authenticity in the face of the commodification of art, symbolized by the jacket transformed into a relic. It evokes the artist's shedding, compelled to reinvent themselves to survive in an environment where personal expression is often sacrificed for the sake of spectacle.

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