JACE presents a total new series of what he calls his School electrocution cards. He is inspired from illustrations dating 1971 created for French young students. The drawings illustrate the perfect everyday life of the 1970’s. We see a permed hair mother who invariably smiles beside a father who is the alfa male of the house bringing back home the fruit of his daily labor. Here are drawn exemplary roles that children will one day have to hold to serve the nation.
If you look closely at the picture, you find out that JACE completely changes the subject of the original posters. While he keeps the innocence of the drawing, he also offers us a hard and sometimes cruel critic of our society. These drawings are as intense as provocative: from a drug dealer selling weed to the perfect housewife to a girl slipping her hand into a priest’s cassock, who looks quite satisfied. The simplicity of the drawing makes these social trends a lot harder by the contrast between the character’s evident innocence and the obvious violence of their activities. JACE puts one’s foot in it to show the hidden face of our well ordered society. JACE has a cruel look at the faults of contemporary society. The artist gives us an electroshock and we might come out of this exhibition embarrassed and even shocked. The School electrocution cards have 42 artworks never shown before. As in the Lowbrow art, the Californian movement mixing naïve comic codes and our society’s hard trends, one will find a sweet mix of humor and terror. JACE often makes sarcastic or even caustic drawings in which he draws up a criticism portrait of the French society. He points his finger at the flaws of a society which would like to be perfect.