Simon Wald-Lasowski
Metropolis M
2026
KIOSK asked Simon Wald-Lasowski to fill this year's advertising space in the magazine Metropolis M.
About the ads
"For Metropolis M, I am creating a series of advertisements composed of details drawn from historical, satirical public-domain images. What fascinates me about them is that although the political actors have changed, sadly, the issues of imperialism and corruption depicted over one hundred and twenty years ago have, in essence, changed very little in our current political climate. I combine these images with bizarre objects and found phrases from articles, films, music, and other expressions of popular culture. Through the absurdity of these combinations, I hope to create a brief space for the imagination: a moment of derailment, wonder, and shift."
Simon Wald-Lasowski
About Simon Wald-Lasowski
A gentle provocateur and a satirist at heart, Simon Wald-Lasowski (b. 1980, Paris) collects, teases, and subverts the iconography of images, objects, and signs prevalent in contemporary society through d.i.y modifications, recontextualisation and assemblages. Gathered through observation and serendipitous encounters, tacky gadgets and grotesque curiosities become actors in ironic and absurd installations, films and sculptures.
