Artists
Future collaborations
Camille Ayme
David Blasco
Marion Chambinaud
Awena Cozannet
Cédric Esturillo Cacciarella
Rémy Jacquier
Luce Moreau
Sarah Sandler
Chloé Serre
Didier Tallagrand
Vladimír Škoda
Lucas Zambon
Born in 1998
Lives and works in Lyon
Totologie #2, 2010
Steel, aluminium, baked epoxy paint, 400 x 500 x 300 cm
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Take the Painting and Run, 2006
Happening and video. 136 replicas of Munch’s The Scream painted from memory, surveillance camera, nylon stockings, spray can, audience, alarm
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Inflatable sculpture, tape, paper, felt, fan, wooden support, 500 x 200 x 250 cm. Private collection, on deposit at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Lyon
Photo : © Georg Rehsteiner
“People say that my work derives from a logic of pleasure, and I admit that I enjoy racking my brains for flashes of wit. To be frank, I aim at a precise point in a zone that’s oddly innervated, equidistant between brain and heart. The practice is all the more exhilarating for being risky. It takes rigour, and a relaxed attitude.
Relaxation’s important. It’s what makes people want to believe you, even if you’re telling a tall story, and the trickery’s plain to see. In any case, what happens behind the scenes is more interesting than what happens on the stage. Asking how things work – that’s what children do. Children or scientists. It’s pretty much the same thing. And there’s nothing wrong with that.
So one day I decided I wanted to be like those who know about quantum theory, Boolean algebra, thermodynamics, transcendental numbers. But the longer I looked at the way the world worked, the more I doubted its reality. Its texture became changeable; it started slipping through my fingers. So I decided to stop learning, and, from then on, to invent the unknown. After all, not knowing means already having a point of view. But I’d got into a habit: I count on gravity to draw pretty curves, pretty parabolas.
In spite of everything, my ignorance remains boundless. Sometimes I fill in a few gaps, but very often I’m happy just to exhibit them. The equipment’s minimal: no compass, just a good pick. Apart from that, I trust in my lucky star to come up trumps.”
Le Gentil Garçon, A good pick
Translated by John Doherty, 2014
Camille Ayme
David Blasco
Marion Chambinaud
Awena Cozannet
Cédric Esturillo Cacciarella
Rémy Jacquier
Luce Moreau
Sarah Sandler
Chloé Serre
Didier Tallagrand
Vladimír Škoda
Lucas Zambon