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Xavier Hufkens opens American artist Sayre Gomez s first exhibition with the gallery Installation view. BRUSSELS .-Xavier Hufkens is presenting American artist Sayre Gomez’s first exhibition with the gallery. Comprising a new series of large-format urban landscape paintings and three-dimensional works, the artist takes Los Angeles as the starting point for an expansive exploration of contemporary metropolitan life and the psychology of place. Also on Artdaily The title of the exhibition, True Crime, reflects one of the leitmotivs of the exhibition and a recurring theme in Gomez’s oeuvre, namely the gap between fact and fiction and the notion of constructed realities. It references an immensely popular genre of literature, film and television that appears to be rooted in reality but tends to be meticulously scripted. The phenomenon is aptly summarised by the UCLA media scholar, Mark Seltzer: “true crime is crime fact that looks like crime fiction, it marks, or irritates, the

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