Adrien MENU

Born in 1991 in Saint-Rémy, Adrien Menu lives and works in Marseille. Graduated from the Villa Arson in Nice in 2016, he also studied at the Beaux-Arts of Dijon and in Buenos Aires. His sculptural work explores the tensions between organicity and mechanization, between withdrawal and resistance, through installations where fragments of bodies, used objects, and construction materials coexist.

His works take the form of ambiguous environments: metallic structures, industrial modules, contaminated surfaces, in which a ghostly presence emerges. Decomposing bottles or cans, a leather jacket compose a sculptural lexicon that evokes the ruin of a productivist world running out of steam.

In this aesthetics of slowing down, Adrien Menu questions the contemporary condition of the body and systems. His sculptures, frozen in anticipation or inaction, evoke a jammed mechanism, a silent propagation of malfunctions. His work can then be read as a metaphor for our societies, contaminated by over-information, automation, and exploitation.