{"id":2509,"date":"2025-10-10T14:05:00","date_gmt":"2025-10-10T21:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/catbradley.io\/?p=2509"},"modified":"2025-10-10T14:05:00","modified_gmt":"2025-10-10T21:05:00","slug":"in-the-party-is-over-murmure-confronts-the-absurd-spectacle-of-the-end-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/catbradley.io\/?p=2509","title":{"rendered":"In \u2018The Party is Over,\u2019 Murmure Confronts the Absurd Spectacle of the End Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thisiscolossal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/murmure-2.jpg\" alt=\"In \u2018The Party is Over,\u2019 Murmure Confronts the Absurd Spectacle of the End Times\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In a world this absurd and disastrous, do we gravitate toward cynicism or levity? For the artist duo known as <a href=\"https:\/\/murmurestreet.fr\/\">Murmure<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thisiscolossal.com\/tags\/murmure\/\">previously<\/a>), both are the only option.<\/p>\n<p>The Caen, France-based pair presents a new body of paintings and charcoal drawings in their plainly titled exhibition, <em>La f\u00eate est finie<\/em>, or <em>The party is over<\/em>. Through a unique sense of wit and irony, they transform astronauts into runway models, the moon into a nuclear power plant, and a birthday cake into a raging forest fire. <\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"960\" height=\"1177\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thisiscolossal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/murmure-4-960x1177.jpg\" alt=\"an astronaut carrying a louis vuitton case in a piece by Murmure\" class=\"wp-image-463620\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">\u201cMoon Walk\u201d (2025), carbon pencil on paper, 50 x 40 centimeters<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Where there could be commonplace sights or moments of joy and frivolity, Murmure instead presents an unsettling composition. Every ill-advised choice\u2014whether baking in front of a UV screen or watching cows graze on an ice floe\u2014becomes a spectacular confrontation with our collective obsessions with consumerism, ecological wreckage, and self-serving gluttony.<\/p>\n<p><em>La f\u00eate est finie<\/em> is on view through November 22 at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.galerielj.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Galerie LJ<\/a> in Paris. Find more from the artists on <a href=\"https:\/\/murmurestreet.fr\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">their website<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/murmurestreet\/?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Instagram<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1726\" height=\"1719\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thisiscolossal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/murmure-1.jpg\" alt=\"a piece by Murmure of a woman standing in front of a UV screen\" class=\"wp-image-463617\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">\u201cUV #2\u201d (2025), carbon pencil on paper, 35 x 35 centimeters<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1406\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thisiscolossal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/murmure-5.jpg\" alt=\"a piece by Murmure of a nuclear plant on the moon\" class=\"wp-image-463621\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">\u201cNuclear Moon\u201d (2025), carbon pencil on paper, 50 x 70 centimeters<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"2000\" height=\"2679\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thisiscolossal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/murmure-8.jpg\" alt=\"cartoonish mushrooms stand beneath a painting of a mushroom-shaped explosion by Murmure\" class=\"wp-image-463624\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">\u201cA Mushroom Story\u201d (2025), acrylic on canvas, 200 x 150 centimeters<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1335\" height=\"1839\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thisiscolossal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/murmure-6.jpg\" alt=\"a piece by Murmure of a cake with a forest in flames\" class=\"wp-image-463622\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">\u201cHappy Birthday\u201d (2025), carbon pencil on paper, 55 x 40 centimeters<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"2000\" height=\"2768\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thisiscolossal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/murmure-7.jpg\" alt=\"a woman relaxes in front of a UV screen with a martini in a piece by Murmure\" class=\"wp-image-463623\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">\u201cUV #1\u201d (2025), carbon pencil on paper, 180 x 130 centimeters<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1443\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thisiscolossal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/murmure-3.jpg\" alt=\"a painting by Murmure of a polar bear sleeping on a cooler\" class=\"wp-image-463619\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">\u201cCooler Age\u201d (2025), acrylic on canvas, 50 x 70 centimeters<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Do stories and artists like this matter to you? Become a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thisiscolossal.com\/members\">Colossal Member<\/a> today and support independent arts publishing for as little as $7 per month. The article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thisiscolossal.com\/2025\/10\/murmure-the-part-is-over\/\">In \u2018The Party is Over,\u2019 Murmure Confronts the Absurd Spectacle of the End Times<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thisiscolossal.com\/\">Colossal<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a world this absurd and disastrous, do we gravitate toward cynicism or levity? For the artist duo known as Murmure (previously), both are the only option. The Caen, France-based&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-rss"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/catbradley.io\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2509","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/catbradley.io\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/catbradley.io\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/catbradley.io\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/catbradley.io\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2509"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/catbradley.io\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2509\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/catbradley.io\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/catbradley.io\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/catbradley.io\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}