We meet at the La Nature Festival in Vielsalm, Belgium.
We immediately fall in love with his performance ‘Untitled‘ a work about the obsession with weather, changing climate…
it has been raining for two days, all around is an enchantment of nature and mud.
It is 8.30 in the morning.
There is magic and beauty.
(Ple)
Vielsalm (BE) 2024
lives and works in the Paris area, France.
Video artist and painter, sometimes (often) involved in performance art and artists’ books, which get published every 2 years or so – Having worked as a video artist for several years, his works are a show of force between fiction, the documentary, serious prank and frequently involve family members or other such-like idols of his. The audience is baffled, constantly
(Cecile Benoiton)
Public collections – French National Library / Institute for Research and Coordination in Acoustics/Music (IRCAM), Paris (France)
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WORKS
The van
video, 3'58'', 2025
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Untitled
Play a record from Saturn Records
Blow cigarette smoke rings in the direction of the record
It's the rings of Saturn
performance, Pragovka Gallery, Prague (Czech Republic), 31/ 08/ 25
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The Weather 2
Artists' zine, The Empty Chair Publishing, 2025
The Weather 2 is the second issue of The Weather, an artists’ newspaper (2022). The artwork reproduced on its cover and on the inside spread are the same as those reproduced in The Weather (1). The authors of the horoscope on the last page are also the same as those who had designed the games section on the last page of issue # 1. The Weather 2 is so much the same thing as The Weather (1) that one may wonder whether the former might not just be an additional copy of the latter, rather than the second issue after the first, no ?
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Artists
Vidéo, 2'43'', 2024
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Artist’s book, The Empty Chair Publishing, 2024 (IRCAM collection)
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2025 Super Moon, Rue française gallery, Paris / Flavour Of The Month, The Window, Paris (+ curating) / Saint Narcisse, Le Vilebrequin, Paris / Vega Studio, Vega Gouband’s studio, Paris / Pragicomedionale, Pragovka Gallery, Prague (Czech Republic) / Online Performance Festival, [with the Cunning Art Forum] New York (USA) / La Nature Festival – Metamorphosis, Baraque de Fraiture, Vielsalm (Belgium) / Rainy Day Book Exchange, Seattle Art Book Fair, Washington Hall, Seattle (USA)
2024 Miss Read, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin (Germany) / Made (Anywhere), Fiminco Foundation, Romainville (France) / Tide Wrack, Black & White Gallery, Bastia (Corsica) /Charleston Zine Fest 6, Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art, Charleston (USA) / La Nature Festival – Mycelium, Baraque de Fraiture, Vielsalm (Belgium) / International Pynchon Week, Faculty of Philology, Belgrade (Serbia) / The Abyss And The Foreshore, Abstract Project Gallery, Paris (F) / With Everything, With Any Thing, With Almost Nothing, With Nothing, Florence Loewy Gallery, Paris
Published 2025 Performance (Under)statements, artist’s book, 1 copy, The Empty Chair Publishing (IRCAM collection) / The Weather 2, artists’ fanzine, 10 copies, The Empty Chair Publishing / The Fire Of Farniente, wallpaper, 5 copies, RR) 2024 Cooperstown Twin Pines, RR)
Residencies
2022 – Keravel Estate, Plouha (F) 2020 – he Generator, Gentilly (F) [ with the Performing Arts Laboratory] / Michel Journiac Gallery, Paris (F) [with the PAL]
Others
2024 ADAGP/ (Made Anywhere) Best Artist’s Book Award: nominee 2021 & 2016 ADAGP/ MAD Best Artist’s Book Award: nominee