SANS TITRE
FROM JULY, 5 TO SEPTEMBER, 4
AND FROM OCTOBER, 13 2009 TO OCTOBER, 31 2010
For their residency at the CENTQUATRE, Fabien Giraud and Raphaël Siboni want to develop projects for their various forthcoming exhibitions. Their residency divides into two phases: the first part will be devoted to preparing a series of sculptures that will be presented in the context of an exhibition at the Gertrude Center for Contemporary Art in Australia in October 2009. In the second phase they will work on sets of more experimental pieces that call for tests and prototypes in the studio for a series of “synthetic” sculptures. This involves establishing a principle that will generate forms from existing sculptures. The research, testing and finishing stages of the work will be carried out within their studio at the CENTQUATRE.
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Fabien Giraud and Raphaël Siboni are represented by the Hervé Loevenbruck gallery.
FABIEN GIRAUD & RAPHAËL SIBONI
Raphaël Siboni and Fabien Giraud have been collaborating since 2007. Their work as a duo starts with an almost anthropological questioning applied to various community-based groups and practices (airsoft, tuning, hardcore punk, record holders, etc...). Motivated by standing at a distance and a certain spirit of derision and sustained by both philosophical reading and popular culture, Fabien Giraud and Raphaël Siboni produce a critical body of work where fiction, sculpture and hi-tech tools are intermingled. They want the innovative and subjective forms they create to be disembodied, futuristic, agonizing. The overload of meaning can lead to its cancellation.
With "The Outland (Simulateur fermé)" presented at La Force de l’art #2 at the Grand Palais in spring 2009, their approach broadened out and established itself as a phenomenology of contemporary affects. Art as stimuli, a sideline.
BIOGRAPHY
Fabien Giraud
Fabien Giraud was born in Paris in 1980 and lives and works there today. After studying at the École des Arts Décoratifs in Paris, then at Le Fresnoy in Tourcoing, he attracted attention with his installation "Sans titre (rodage)" at the Palais de Tokyo: a strange vision of a community of the future, consisting of three computer-controlled minimotorbikes. As well as this, he organized a concert of hardcore punk music in order to choreograph the crowd. This resulted in a dense climate that amplified this urban ritual.
Raphaël Siboni
Born in Paris in 1981, Raphaël Siboni still lives and works there. He trained at the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris, then at Le Fresnoy. In 2004 he was awarded the Paul Ricard Foundation prize. Following an exhibition as part of the modules of the Palais de Tokyo in 2006, he directed the film "Kant Tuning Club" at Fresnoy. In that short, half-way between fiction and a B film, he features an avatar of Gilles Deleuze who associates with tuning enthusiasts.
