Plonk and Replonk , based in Switzerland, was created by the Froidevaux brothers. In their own creative way, collectively they have distinguished themselves by creating a series of postcards by recycling and retouching old photographs with a mixed of black humour, nonsense, kitschy, baroque and puns taken literally. Their work suggests a wicked sense of humour, which borders on sardonic. They turned around ordinary objects and habits in order to ask us to see them in other ways. Their astonishing images allow us to grasp reality from a distance, distorted by time and fantasy.

This exhibition brings a series of images with French captions (English translation will be provided): from "The children’s excursion to the National Park of cakes" (with a meringue landscape) to a family photo taken during "The terrible epidemic of moustache in 1890"; and to headlines like ‘World of globalisation: Jet setting relocated to South Pole" (where aristocrats are served by costumed penguin).

Plonk and Replonk’s exhibition is organised by the Embassy of Switzerland in conjunction with the French Language Week 2011 and made possible with the support of Intuittech.

More information on Plonk and Replonk at http://www.plonkreplonk.ch

ABOUT FROIVEDAUX BROTHERS

Hubert Froidevaux (1966) and Jacques Froidevaux (1963) were born in La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland, where they currently live and work. Creatively, they explore the possibilities of artistic expressions which includes bizarrely captioned, fin-de-siécle style postcards and coffee table books; comic strips depicting the adventures of Helvetus IV, a fictitious King of Switzerland; T-shirts and installations featuring garden gnomes up to their eyeballs in blocks of cement. Their work can be characterised by their sharp humour and their great critical ability on topics such as environments, globalisation, education, consumerism and arms race.