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Leo Gabin

No panic baby

Video | hdv | color | 31:30 | Belgium | 2017

An eerie whispering voice tries to comfort anxious souls while the sky is invaded by fake objects. The female protagonist resembles a school shooter with Kylie Jenner-like lips and eyebrows. An American landscape of nearly bankrupt casinos and desolated neighborhoods. Heartache and burning baseball caps. A plane hangs still in mid-air as someone tells us ”Do not believe what you think”... NO PANIC BABY, by artists trio Leo Gabin, is an evocative love story steeped in anxiety and extreme paranoia. The film captures the inner sense of irreality, as emblematic of an era as it takes its last gasp.

Leo Gabin is a trio of Belgian artists, who have worked together since 2000. Their practice includes painting, installation, sculpture & film. They take inspiration from the proliferation of user generated media on the internet and the until now undefined space straddling the public and private realms. Work by Leo Gabin has been exhibited and screened at museum Dhondt-Dhaenens (Deurle), Schirn Kunsthalle (Frankfurt), White Cube (London), Museum M Wood (Beijing), CPH:DOX (selected New:Vision award), Nowe Horyzonty (selected Grand Prix), IFFR (Critics’ Choice), Torino Film Festival, CineMarfa, among others.