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Stéphane Sautour
1968, Paris. Lives and works in Paris |
If meditation on the notion of use lies at the heart
of Stéphane Sautour’s
work it does not mean that the perception of his systems is not a
full on
activity of the eye. Disorientating the spectator, reversing procedures,
Stéphane Sautour tries to make us lose all sense of direction
by mapping out a pretend geography of behaviour associated with new
technologies.
Fight Club, 2002, a system made up of two robot dogs AIBO.
The dogs taking part in Fight Club have been programmed to fight amongst
themselves. The aim is to distort the characters of the two robots
in order to make them aggressive towards each other and
organise an electronic fight.
Childhood memory or unreliable recall? The fleeting moment of an
unconcerned glance or a multitude of anguished inhibitions? Rebecca
S’s
work traces the unspeakable fringe between a forgotten reality and
poetic
fiction, it brings the spectator to the unusual junction of fantastical
genres, surrealist and dream like, in a diagram of creation surprising
in a
young artist. The vocabulary is precise, the style is assured. Unexpected
visions, lakeside landscapes or default interiors, evoke a possibility
of
history or the reverse, of a pure fiction antagonistic to reality.
— Véronique d’Auzac de Lamartinie
Selected solo exhibitions: 2002: Loevenbruck, Paris.
Selected group exhibitions: 2003: GNS, Palais de
Tokyo, Paris; Foire de Bâle, Loevenbruck, Paris; Extra, Swiss
Institute, New York; Adiétérotomachie, Palais de Tokyo,
Paris; 2002: Nuit Blanche, Plus qu’une image, Ville de Paris,
Paris; Villette numérique, La Grande Halle de la Villette,
Paris; Game Over City, FRAC Champagne-Ardenne, Reims; 2001: Rouge
Total, Le Parvis Centre d’Art Contemporain, Pau; Contribution
Généralisée, ERBA, Valence; Demain les chiens,
Zoo Galerie, Nantes. |
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Fight-club. 2003. Courtesy Loevenbruck, Paris.
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