Adrien MENU

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

His works take the form of ambiguous environments: metal structures, industrial modules, contaminated surfaces, in which a ghostly presence emerges. Decomposing bottles, cans and leather jackets make up a sculptural lexicon that evokes the ruin of a breathless productivist world.

In this aesthetics of slowing downAdrien Menu questions the contemporary condition of the body and systems. His sculptures, frozen in waiting or inaction, evoke a seized-up mechanism, a silent propagation of silent propagation of malfunctions.. His work can be read as a metaphor for our societies, contaminated by information overload, automation and exploitation.