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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 on the edge of the urban space and its periphery (territorial, social, and human). With a practice of wandering, I navigate (on foot, by car, by train) in border spaces (ring roads, highways, coastlines, waterways). I try to reproduce a representation of the modern ruin where agricultural, industrial, commercial, and abandoned construction zones are grafted, forgotten. All these states of the contemporary world are documented, photographed, recorded, filed. My working method consists of taking objects, shapes, impressions from the real world that I then transform in the space of the studio. My goal is to operate displacements and disconnections which, at the same time as they bring fragments of the world towards an imaginary, dreamlike dimension, also reveal the state. This process is each time a tense experience, on a knife's edge, close to imbalance where I try to avoid the confinement generated by the repetition of forms, patterns and mastery."

Boris Chouvellon has always been fascinated by what is behind the scenes, or what he calls "the aesthetics of the zone." To uncover its patterns, materials and objects, he surveys peri-urban areas and third-party landscapes.

Biography

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

EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUNDS

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

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

  • hortillonnages, art cities and landscapes, Maison de la culture d’Amiens, France. Quatre, in the Hautes-Alpes, France.
    SAC Mari tra le mura, Pino Pascali Foundation, Polignano a Mare, Italy.
    Remembering the sea, Château d’Avignon, France.
  • 2011 / Running on empty, [mac] musée d’art contemporain de Marseille, France Small victories, small deaths, 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 de Calais, France. SCVA, Norwich, England.
    Argos Art Center, Brussels, Belgium. Centre Culturel français, Hanoï, Vietman. agYU presents Buy-sellf, Toronto, Canada. Mac Val in Vitry-Sur-Seine, France.

AWARDS & RESIDENCIES

  • 2019 / Winner of the Étant donnés grant – FACE Foundation and goes on residency in Los Angeles 2018 Saint-Ange residency in Seyssins, France.
  • 2015 / Winner of the friends of la maison rouge prize, Antoine de Galbert foundation, Paris, France 2014 Finalist Révélations Emerige
  • 2013-2012 / Residency at the Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris, France.
  • 2011 / Residency at Deux Angles, Flers, France.
  • 2011 / Grant for installation from Drac PACA, France. 2010 Residency at Le 75, Brussels, Belgium.
  • 2011 / Residency at Château Grand Boise, Trets, France. 2009 Individual Grant for Creation, Drac Paca.
  • 2008-2010 / Residency at the city's artist studios (Ateliers Boissons), Marseille, France.
  • 2009 / Residency at The Drake, Canada.
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