GILLES BARBIER – ARTIST IMPRESSION
2017-03-27Gaël Charbau : Almost all your works belong to programmes, ideas, statements that you invent and that result in multiple series. If one day we were able to outline the cartography of this true galaxy, it would allow us to comprehend all the connections gathering your works in one and the same world. You are now presenting a nascent series from within this universe which is entitled « Ce qui est sorti du chapeau aujourd’hui » (What was pulled out of the hat today). Can you detail the underlying principle?
Gilles Barbier : The hat is the head, and today a clock’s frequency. As is often the case, the idea is to combine the power of doing with a freedom which can contradict the approach, often accompanied by a heavy, hackneyed and discriminating lexicon. In order to do this, I devise strategies to trigger a bursting within a given frame, where each fragment can subsequently be garnered. I call this principle a production machine. Combining machine and subjectivity is something that has troubled me for a long time now, at least since AI has allowed to clarify this interaction. Ce qui est sorti du chapeau aujourd’hui acts as a production machine and therefore I don’t need to be preoccupied about the objects it produces, only to be attentive and dedicated.
Opposite – Exhibition view
Exhibition runs through to April 22nd, 2017
Galerie Georges-Philippe & Nathalie Vallois
33 & 36, rue de Seine
75006 Paris
France
