Vivien Roubaud — In Situ Gallery, Fabienne Leclerc — Exhibition — Slash Paris

Past: May 21 → July 24, 2015

Vivien Roubaud defines himself as a “general handyman” : he selects and collects products gone to wast and fixes, combines and hybrids them to obtain “non-productive” machines, which are still animated thanks to the technical protocols that enabled their creation. Disfunction is a creative force, technologies are deconstructed to become techne, media: pieces from refrigerators and air conditioners produce an ice sculpture; a divided printer marks the floor, deconstructs the layout, changes its repositories; a crazy electric wire, dancing in space, animates some neons … Frantic works, which find their “balance in catastrophe”.

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Born in 1986, he recently graduated from the Villa Arson (National School of Fine Arts at the Villa Arson), in Nice, France. He obtained the Emerige Révélation award in 2014.