Alix Delmas — À propos — Slash Paris

“From its beginnings, at the end of the 1990s, Alix Delmas’ plastic work is distinguished by what will become a major topic: moving human bodies — his own body, those of his models plus ours, spectators ( by analogy by positioning them unexpectedly. His work, in this case, confronts us with a common space, which we share with the artist. Space understood from another angle of perception and sensation, rendered space poetic for some, deconstructed space for others, in any case enriched. ”

 — _Paul Ardenne, extract from Corps et milieus repositiononnés, in Captures Alix Delmas, editions LOCO_

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Of expatriate parents, Alix Delmas had a Senegalese childhood from 1962 to 1975, then an adolescence in French Basque country and post-Franco Spanish. She studied painting at the Beaux-Arts in Paris, a practice she abandoned in 1988, to devote herself fully to the aesthetic experience through photography, video, drawing, sculpture, architectural objects, etc. lives and works in Paris. She leaves the city for moments in Cantal, the Basque Coast or the Medoc and escapes thanks to residences that she organizes in Austria, New York, Cuba, Okinawa …

Alix Delmas won the Monograph Collection Grant from ADAGP with the work Captures published by LOCO editions in 2019. She received, thanks to her videos and photographs, the Arte Laguna Prize in 2016, the Celeste Prize in 2013, the Altadis Prize in 2004. Alix Delmas is currently working on her fourth lasting intervention in public space. The 1% proposal will be installed on the site of the Ivry-sur-Seine Municipal Health Center in the fall of 2020.

His works have entered many collections in France and abroad, the main ones being: the FRAC Auvergne, the FRAC Artothèque Nouvelle-Aquitaine, the FNAC, the Museum of Art and Archeology, Aurillac, the Mudo; the Leube Foundation (Salzburg), the Albertina Museum (Wien), Landesmuseum Oberösterreich (Linz), the Central Saint Martins collection (London).