Copie-moi
This bent tubular skeleton supports the fragments of a dislocated, fragmented, and almost grotesquely helpless body. It is a cast of the artist’s legs, a recurring motif in his work, which he made using epoxy resin. This sculpture seems to express his ambivalent feelings about the body as an object: “There is something in the body that cannot be grasped (...) Kneading it, replicating it, multiplying it does not change anything. It is always impossible to completely comprehend it.” One cannot ignore the fetishistic or potentially erotic dimension implied by the undone trousers, especially as the artist often coats his sculptures with various fluids (grease, oils, shampoo) when they are exhibited. Its enigmatic title (“copy me”) is a direct appeal to the viewer, perhaps in an evocation of the sculpture casts used as a support for academic drawing, or so as to question the processes of copying and duplication at work in contemporary art.
Text written by Marianne Tricoire as part of the partnership between the École du Louvre and Lafayette Anticipations – Fonds de dotation Famille Moulin.
Exhibitions
Galerie Marcelle Alix, Paris (France)
from 16 May to 25 Jul 2020
Bétonsalon, Paris (France)
from 03 May to 13 Jul 2019