LÉGIONS D’AMI·ES (LEGIONS OF FRIENDS), 2024

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)

NI OUI NI NON (NEITHER YES OR NO), 2023

Image displaying and editing in the age of swipes, likes and Tinder... (watch the video)

TENNIS, MON BEAU SOUCI (TENNIS, MY BEAUTIFUL CONCERN), 2022

Video exchange game with Maki Suzuki. (watch the film)

DAMP, 2022, solo show, galerie Allen

​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. (+++)

LA ROSE (THE ROSE), 2020

THE ROSE IS WITHOUT WHY, IT BLOOMS BECAUSE IT BLOOMS, IT CARES NOT FOR ISELF, ASK NOT IF IT IS SEEN. (SEE IT)

NEWS FROM FRIENDS, 2020

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)

ENCORES, 2018, solo show galerie Allen

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)

THE BIG COMBO, 2018

Sculpture & film, live action & 3D animation, narrative & abstraction, closed & open, ... & ... (COMBO !!!)

LALAMPE (CHAPTER 1), 2018

"Lalangue, l'apparole, where it speaks, it enjoys, is exactly what I said when I said the unconscious is structured as a language." (orbiting)

COUNTERFACTUAL PRESHAPED MATTRESS, 2018

Vaguely cloisonné abstract relief (???)

I’M A POOR LONESOME ARTIST (ENCORES), 2018

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)

LLV, 2018

A normograph is a tool for tracing l tt rs (g n rally block l tt rs), numb rs or oth r charact rs and g om tric shap s. It g n rally tak s th form of a flat 30 cm rul r mad of transluc nt plastic from which th l tt rs of th alphab t ar cut out in capitals and small l tt rs (norm mor ?)

PAPAMOULE, 2017

A pipe case and the bronze sculpture of its inner space. (see more)

MEMENTOS, 2017

Portraits of the artist as a dubious quality product (drink more)

12XU, 2016, solo show galerie Allen

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)

EN ATTENDANT ALICE (WAITING FOR ALICE), 2012/2016

Lewis and Samuel are in a public commission artwork. Alice falls overboard. (Who's left ?)

CHER CASINO (DEAR CASINO) 2016

Commissioned for the 20th anniversary of Casino Luxembourg (commission more)

‘S NOT DEAD and ‘S NOT DEAD (TITLE), 2016

An unfolded hanger, almost a line, its title. (Who's not???)

THE LEFTOVERS (NORA), 2016

A suspension made from an assembly of scrap materials, lit by a desk lamp. (see Nora)

UN BAISER (PF + GT) (A KISS (PF + GT)), 2016

Rodin and Brancusi are in a boat. Guston falls overboard. Who Krazy Kats? (Kiss More)

FIAC, 2016

The title says it all (all)

DES JEUX DONT J’IGNORE LES RÈGLES (DISPLAY) (GAMES WHOSE RULES I IGNORE (DISPLAY)), 2015

A sort of meta-documentary on The games whose rules I ignore ??? (find out for sure!)

DES JEUX DONT J’IGNORE LES RÈGLES (GAMES WHOSE RULES I IGNORE), 2015

“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)

LA NUIT ÉTOILÉE (STARRY NIGHT), 2015

Have you ever emptied the reservoir of an office punch onto a cutting mat ? (star more)

MERZEN, 2014

Kurt Schwitters invented a strange term to baptize the modalities of his practice: « Merzen »... (more Merz)

THE GRASSHOPPER IN THE HIGH CASTLE, 2013

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, 2013

THE ROSE IS WITHOUT WHY / IT BLOOMS BECAUSE IT BLOOMS / IT CARES NOT FOR ISELF / ASK NOT IF IT IS SEEN.
(wanna see it?)

SÉANCES (SESSIONS), 2012, solo show, Crédac

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)

OH, LUMIÈRE ! (OH, LIGHT !), 2012, solo show, galerie Vallois

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)

DESSINS SOLAIRES (SOLAR DRAWINGS), 2011

Let the sunshine draw shapes all by itself... (Sol)

COMMUNIONS, 2011

Proposals for “we” appointments. (Commune !)

CONATUS : LA ROSE EST SANS POURQUOI (CONATUS: THE ROSE IS WITHOUT WHY), 2009, solo show, FRAC Champagne-Ardenne

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)

CONATUS : LA NUIT DU DANSEUR (CONATUS : NIGHT OF THE DANCER), 2009

A tap dancer wearing a luminous mask moves through the artworks in an exhibition at night, alone. (Watch the film)

IIIIIIIIIIII, 2008-2009, solo show, galerie de Multiples

IIIIIIIIIIII is a project specifically conceived for and with the Galerie de Multiple. (12 ?)

CONATUS : AMIDSUMMERNIGHTSDREAM, 2008

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 !)

CONATUS : YES, 2007

YES! YES!! YES!!! (See the YES)

CONATUS : PILOTE, 2006, solo show, galerie Vallois

After the trailer comes the pilot episode... (watch it)

CONATUS : BANDE-ANNONCE (CONATUS: TRAILER), 2006

A mobile that announces, like a teaser, the forthcoming Conatus series... (coming soon, in Conatus)

CONATUS : JOIE (CONATUS: JOY), 2006

“Joy is Man's passage from a lesser perfection to a greater one”. Spinoza, Ethics.(see the joy)

OPERATION RESTORE POETRY, 2005

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)

SPIRALE (SPIRAL), 2004

Slow dorsal reptation in the business world. (watch the movie)

UNITÉ ! (UNITY !), 2004

Floor/wall/ceiling. Or matte/reflective/bright. Or police/splinter/mud. Or...(See, see, see...)

BRUME (MIST), 2003

Deserted mall + Hong Kong action movies + Buto dance + RʼnʼB choreography + zombie movies (Let's mist)

NON-STOP PAYSAGE (NON-STOP LANDSCAPE), 2003, solo show, Fri-Art, Fribourg

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)

JOUER AVEC DES CHOSES MORTES (PLAYING WITH DEAD THINGS), 2003, solo show, Les Laboratoires d’Aubervilliers

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 ?

FLASHFORWARD, 2002, solo show, galerie Chez Valentin

Background, subject, painting, animation, topicality, combinatorics, bringing together what's separate. And a self-portrait as a Simpson... (flash)

FLASH FORWARD – Atelier de Création Radiophonique, 2002

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!)

PLUG AND PLAY, 2002

How playable is reality? (level up)

HYPNOS, 2001

On the performativity of self-fulfilling prophecies. (will to control)

COSMOS, 2001, solo shows, Palais de Tokyo & Kunstverein Freiburg

The official video club for adaptations of Witold Gombrowicz's novel. (pick up your tape)

COSMOS, 2001

Another adaptation of Gombrowicz's novel, in which Cosmos becomes an automatic door that opens and closes randomly and autonomously. (Open up!)

AUTOPORTRAIT EN COYOTE (SELF-PORTRAIT AS A COYOTE), 2001

Self-portrait as Wile E. Coyote at the Musée d'art moderne de la Ville de Paris... (Bip Bip !)

TOTALMAXIGOLDMACHINEMEGADANCEHIT2000, 2000

Soundtrack for thematic summer exhibition... (Play Loud !)

mmmmmm…, 2000

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)

GHOSTY, 2000

Silent sculpture in public space. (see it)

UN MONDE QUI S’ACCORDE À NOS DÉSIRS (A WORLD THAT MATCHES OUR DESIRES), 2000

Liquid sculptural prodigality based on a truncated Baziniene quote turned into an eroticized advertising style. (watch)

STOPPEUR, 1999

An address with no possibility of reply. Again. Already. (Take me!)

JE NE VEUX TOUT, 1999

A motto in the form of a cobbled-together, dimly-lit antilogy. (Nothing/Everything)

ABRI (SHELTER), 1998

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)

ICI ET AUTREFOIS ET AILLEURS ET MAINTENANT (HERE AND THEN AND ELSEWHERE AND NOW), 1998-ongoing

Cave art on images of objects of desire. Primary gesture on impermanence. (touch)

PIZZA-PROJET (PIZZA-PROJECT), 1998

Hasta la pizza, baby ! (A Kippenberger for table 3!)

ARTISTE BORIS ACHOUR, 1997

The title says it all ! (or not!)

I LOVE, 1997

Visual antilogy, Night of the Hunter, rustic and slightly rough pop-art. (this way)

CONFETTI, 1997

Colorful discharge in an urban environment. (burst into it)

REMPLI (FILLED, 1997

An address with no possibility of reply. Already. (Adress)

UNE SCULPTURE (A SCULPTURE), 1996

Fiction and narrative. Anonymity. Random encounters. Mimicry. (“Everything in the world exists to led to a book”.)

ALIGNEUR DE PIGEONS (PIGEONS ALIGNER), 1996

Ligne (gather, arrange, order), an ephemeral sculptural proposition in the public space. (pigeon more)

DESSINS (DRAWINGS), 1993

Roughly drawing images on themselves. Almost crossing them out. (see more)

ACTIONS-PEU (ACTIONS-LITTLE), 1993-1997

Anonymous, ephemeral interventions in public spaces, usually using elements found on site. (little more)

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