For this first Conversation, Patrick Javault invites artist Jean-Luc Moulène and writer Daniel Foucard.

Without worrying over whether he is more of a visual artist, a reporter, or a portraitist, Jean-Luc Moulène has been using photography as a mode of exploration that cannot be reduced to a single practice. For quite a while now he has been making objects and sculptures that are like an extension of photography through different means. With these objects and sculptures, he posits, adjusts, adds to a certain idea of art. Moulène's statements may on occasion be disconcerting: he sometimes introduces himself as a libertarian technician and - with even less hesitation - a mystic, all the while claiming le Grand Jeu as a major influence, before any other artistic school. In the company of writer Daniel Foucard, who has recently published Casse (Éditions Léo Scheer), a novel partly based on an artistic gesture, we will certainly talk about photography with Moulène, but also about things that more or less have to do with it.

BIOGRAPHIES

Jean-Luc MOULENE

Born in France in 1955. Lives and works in Paris.
Represented by Galerie Chantal Crousel in Paris.
Jean-Luc Moulène's work is featured in the exhibition "Mental archeology" with Matti Braun and Thea Djordjadze, at the Crédac from Sept. 22 to Dec. 19, 2010.
www.credac.fr

Daniel FOUCARD

Born in Paris in 1961. Lives and works in Paris.
www.danielfoucard.net