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Boris Chouvellon

Born in 1980, lives and works in Paris. Graduated from Villa Arson in Nice and Beaux Arts in Marseille.
"My field of exploration lies at the limit of urban space and its periphery (territorial, social and human). With a practice of wandering, I navigate (on foot, by car, by train) in frontier spaces (ring roads, freeways, coastlines, waterways). I attempt to reproduce a representation of modern ruin, where agricultural, industrial and commercial zones are grafted onto abandoned, forgotten building sites. All these states of the contemporary world are documented, photographed, recorded and filed down. My working method consists of taking objects, forms and impressions from the real world, which I then transform in the studio space. My aim is to bring about displacements and disconnections which, at the same time as they take fragments of the world into an imaginary, dreamlike dimension, also reveal its state. This process is always a tense, razor-edge experience, close to imbalance, in which I try to avoid the confinement engendered by the repetition of forms, motifs and mastery."

Boris Chouvellon has always been fascinated by what goes on behind the scenes, or what he calls "the aesthetics of the zone". To uncover the motifs, materials and objects, he surveys suburban areas and third landscapes.

Biography

Boris Chouvellon was born in 1980. He lives and works in Paris.
His artistic practice revolves around installation, photography, sculpture and video.

TRAININGS

  • DNSEP, Marseille School of Fine Arts
  • DNAP, Villa Arson Nice

PERSONAL EXHIBITIONS

  • hortillonnages, art cities and landscapes, Maison de la culture d'Amiens, France. Quatre, Hautes-Alpes, France.
    SAC Mari tra le mura, Pino Pascali Foundation, Polignano a Mare, Italy.
    Se souvenir de la mer, Château d'Avignon, France.
  • 2011 / Running on empty, [mac] musée d'art contemporain de Marseille, France Petites victoires, petites morts, Hôtel Royal, Nice, France.
  • 2010 / Magic world, Zurich, Switzerland.
  • 2008 /Les petites illusions, Buysellf, Marseille, France.

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

  • FRAC Basse-Normandie, France.
  • Musée des Beaux Arts, Calais, France. SCVA, Norwich, England.
    Center d'art Argos, Brussels, Belgium. Center Culturel français, Hanoi, Vietnam. agYU presents Buy-sellf, Toronto, Canada. Mac Val, Vitry-Sur-Seine, France.

AWARDS & RESIDENCIES

  • 2019 / Winner of the Étant donnés - FACE Foundation grant and residency in Los Angeles 2018 Résidence Saint-Ange in Seyssins, France.
  • 2015 / Laureate of the Friends of the Maison Rouge Prize, Antoine de Galbert Foundation, Paris, France 2014 Emerige Revelations Finalist
  • 2013-2012 / Cité internationale des arts residency, Paris, France.
  • 2011 / Résidence Deux Angles, Flers, France.
  • 2011 / Installation grant Drac PACA, France 2010 Residence Le 75, Brussels, Belgium.
  • 2011 / Residency Château Grand Boise, Trets, France 2009 Aide Individuelle à la Création, Drac Paca
  • 2008-2010 / Residency at Ateliers d'artistes de la ville, (Ateliers Boissons), Marseille, France.
  • 2009 / The Drake residency, Canada.
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