Anthony Peskine is disappointed. Looking forward on the everyday unfulfiled promises, Peskine sets the list of his ordinary disillusions. Back from the movies, he keeps the promotionnal coupon that was handed to him with his ticket : a « mega promo » discounting half a euro on a 6 Oz. Maltesers pack. Peskine decides he would enlarge the coupon in order to create a painting out of it. Back to work, he focuses on the « escape » key of his computer and, disappointed by the limited functions of a key baring such a promising name, he makes a model of it 50 times larger called « the great escape ». On the pages of a magazine, an advert showing a spectacular physical transformation using the « before/after » principle becomes an inspiration for a video piece. Using his observations of the everyday life, Peskine wills to measure how media and political messages influence reality thus only amplifying and making variations on them.
On the other hand, the visual impact of his work is based on the same techniques as those used by advertising. « My aim is to offer an alternative to ideas that are taken for granted thus making this other option as acceptable. I want to drag the people’s attention on another choice, that’s why my images tend to be attractive.(1) » This visual bias allows him to reinvestigate the processes of the mass media and make use of its own codes. In 2007, Peskine started displaying little posters where the words « OU PAS » (or not) could be read at the end of declarations on billboards such as « together,