Repeater Pencil

Pettibon’s drawings and collages are often executed in brush and ink or watercolours. These are his primary means of expression, although he also produced videos from the 1980s. This animated video combines the motifs Pettibon preferred in his drawings (the building blocks of the iconography specific to an American way of life but hijacked and subverted) with a choir of voices providing an audio narration and producing the disturbing effect of everlasting dissonance.

The work was first presented by the Pinault Collection in the exhibition Forever Sixties at the Couvent des Jacobins (2023).