At first glance, the work is striking for its radical formal and conceptual heterogeneity: videos, sculptures, drawings, paintings, performances, installations, sound pieces… almost the entire range of contemporary art practices is called upon by the artist, whose every project seems to circumscribe a specific purpose inducing its own technical logic, adapted to the subject. Mixing, without hierarchy, heterogeneous elements from a wide variety of cultural and formal fields, this work constitutes an open combinatorial system in perpetual evolution, based on the affirmation of form, the jubilation of creation and the necessity of connection. The notions of fragment, unity and therefore connections, whether considered on the scale of a single work or on that of the entire body of work, are, formally, conceptually and humanly, at the heart of this practice.
For the exhibitions L'amitiés, ce tremble at CRAC Alsace and Crédac, Jean-Luc Godard sends two series of twelve postcards to his friend Boris Achour. (read them!)
Pin badges are small objects, usually of advertising origin, worn as distinctive signs of belonging to a group with similar interests or tastes. (friend more)
DAMP (Display-Algorithm-Procedural Modelling) is a production system based on an algorithm that randomly and automatically generates a catalogue of digital forms with infinite variations, the Displays. (+++)
THE ROSE IS WITHOUT WHY, IT BLOOMS BECAUSE IT BLOOMS, IT CARES NOT FOR ISELF, ASK NOT IF IT IS SEEN. (SEE IT)
Throughout the exhibition La vie des tables, at the Crédac, friends of the artist wrote to him to say that they would unfortunately be unable to come and see him. (spoiler alert: it's because they're dead)
Encore is a double-edged word, since the English language has almost unanimously adopted it to designate the ritual of an artist's return to the stage for a final performance after the show is supposed to have ended. (to encorer)
Sculpture & film, live action & 3D animation, narrative & abstraction, closed & open, ... & ... (COMBO !!!)
"Lalangue, l'apparole, where it speaks, it enjoys, is exactly what I said when I said the unconscious is structured as a language." (orbiting)
Yet another sort of self-portrait, nourished by a shared culture and born of the artist's childhood... A bit easy, isn't it? (see for yourself)
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12XU ! The title of Boris Achour’s first solo exhibition at the Galerie Allen reads like a rebus. A sequence of figures and letters screamed out at the start of a punk song, suggestive of teenage energy with all its violence and desires. (more this way)
“Just as the imaginary situation has to contain rules of behavior, so every game with rules contains an imaginary situation.” Lev Vygotsky in “Mind in Society” (play more)
Kurt Schwitters invented a strange term to baptize the modalities of his practice: « Merzen »... (more Merz)
A bookshelf, a copy of The Grasshopper Lies Heavy, a novel-within-a-novel and a fictional trigger for Philip K. Dick's The Man in the High Castle (Hawthorne Abendsen?)
THE ROSE IS WITHOUT WHY / IT BLOOMS BECAUSE IT BLOOMS / IT CARES NOT FOR ISELF / ASK NOT IF IT IS SEEN.
(wanna see it?)
A show in the form of an exhibition. An exhibition in the form of a show. A narrative in the form of images, sounds and sculptures. A montage of heterogeneous elements constructed by the spectator. A landscape to be explored. (Start the session)
Complementing and symmetrical to the Séances exhibition, held at the same time at Crédac, a daytime exhibition, under the sign of light and brilliance. (Mehr Licht)
This exhibition takes as its starting point the quatrain written by Johannes Scheffler, a 17th-century German theologian and mystic poet: “The rose is without why, blooms because it blooms, cares nothing for itself, does not wish to be seen”. (See it)
A tap dancer wearing a luminous mask moves through the artworks in an exhibition at night, alone. (Watch the film)
A documentary film about a community living in a silver dome and engaging in various playful, dreamlike, erotic and ritual activities, as well as an ethnographic presentation of their masks, costumes and accessories. (Let there be light !)
Operation Restore Poetry is the formalization, through sound and visual amplification and repetition, of the enunciation processes of an artist's discourse, which asserts his poetics as propaganda.(listen and see)
Deserted mall + Hong Kong action movies + Buto dance + RʼnʼB choreography + zombie movies (Let's mist)
An intermittently animated landscape, simultaneously a cheap animatronic show, an over-colored environment, a deviant music video and a mini sculpture garden... (Enjoy the view)
A physical and temporal experience that improbably combines the aesthetics of game shows, minimal sculpture, and the sets and elements of kindergarten and amusement park shows. (Wanna play ?
Background, subject, painting, animation, topicality, combinatorics, bringing together what's separate. And a self-portrait as a Simpson... (flash)
The flash forward is a stylistic device used in film and literature to break the temporal continuity of a story with a sudden “jump” into the future... (jump!)
Another adaptation of Gombrowicz's novel, in which Cosmos becomes an automatic door that opens and closes randomly and autonomously. (Open up!)
A soundtrack played in the streets of Cahors by the loudspeaker system usually used for commercial events, in which Michel Prades talks about his relationship with language, the poetry he writes and the accident that caused his aphasia. (listen to it)
Liquid sculptural prodigality based on a truncated Baziniene quote turned into an eroticized advertising style. (watch)
Assemblage of a form (the bus shelter) and a material (brown color in light prickly relief covering the lampposts and traffic lights) both taken from urban space. (Gimme shelter)
Fiction and narrative. Anonymity. Random encounters. Mental image. Mimicry. (“Everything in the world exists to led to a book”.)
Ligne (gather, arrange, order), an ephemeral sculptural proposition in the public space. (pigeon more)
