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Loris Gréaud

Winner of the Ricard Prize 2005, awarded during the Offshore exhibition, curated by Jean-Max Colard.

 

Ricard Foundation Prize presentation
in the Centre Pompidou

Exhibition from october 24 to november 20, 2006.

Devils Tower Satellite (2005) is in this respect typical of his approach to reactivate forms taken from the cinematographic universe and in the collective memory that cinema generates.

Devils Tower Satellite first appeared as a mirage or a fleeting hallucination in the streets of Paris. Set on a car-towed trailer, this black resin sculpture reminds us of the mysterious mountain from the cult movie by Steven Spielberg, Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977).

A sacred mountain to the Wyoming Indians, this mountain was the meeting point of the aliens, the location of a mentally announced rendez-vous. Fascinating, obsessive, known even by those who had never seen it, it drove the movie characters to compulsively reproduce it. Loris Gréaud reactivates this Devils Tower in various places, starting strange rumours of mysterious appearances.

Loris Gréaud, "Devils Tower Satellite", 2005, mobile sculpture, Dimensions: 355 x 200 x 220 cm, Sculpture: Nevot Vincent, photo: Laetitia Badaut production: Paris-musées, gb agency, Paris courtesy Yvon Lambert Loris Gréaud, "Devils Tower Satellite", 2005, mobile sculpture, Dimensions: 355 x 200 x 220 cm, Sculpture: Nevot Vincent, photo: Laetitia Badaut production: Paris-musées, gb agency, Paris courtesy Yvon Lambert

Biography

Born in 1979 in Eaubonne. Lives and works in Paris and Ho Chi Minh Ville.

The artist is represented by the gallery Yvon Lambert

Works

In the manner of a filmmaker, Loris Gréaud designs his works from encounters and discussions with engineers, architects, musicians, historians, or scientists. Between dream machines and nightmare architectures, his works can be perceived as the different sequences of a film whose audience is in charge of the editing.