Guillaume Bouisset
For a long time, dealing with the invisible was the exclusive domain of priests and shamans, before they ceded this privilege to artists. Guillaume Bouisset summons this double heritage in a quest that he is neither the first nor the last to carry out, because it is essential: to give form to the beyond of the phenomenological, to represent what is behind what we perceive. . First through painting, when he was at the Beaux-Arts in Paris, with hypnotic representations of natural motifs (clouds, leaves, etc.), then, after an exchange in Brazil (2017) during which he produced a frontispiece for the Kaxinawa Indians innervated by shamanic thought, with more complex installations, summoning sacred architecture, that of temples or altars. An aesthetic of the threshold between two worlds, the tangible and the beyond, and their correspondences, where man is often represented in his impossible measure to the absolute. Guillaume Bouisset's work is thus articulated around recurring motifs: the mask, as a border between these two worlds, or the eye, as a symbol of this thirst for the absolute prevented by the limits of our senses. More than our two eyes, Guillaume Bouisset summons the third, and reconsiders the old dualisms of Western thought, those which have cut man off from the world, the subject against the object, being against nothingness, the singular against the universal, man against nature.
Clement Thibault
Formation
2017 Ph.D. EnsAD, PSL Research University, Paris, France Practice based Ph.D. Science, Art, Creation, Recherche (SACRe) Dissertation title: De Lents Semencements (Slow Seeding) Advisors: Nadeije Laneyrie Dagen (EnsAD, ENS, Art Theory) and Eduardo Wesfreid (PMMH-ESPCI, Physics)
2012 MFA École nationale supérieure des Arts Décoratifs (EnsAD), Paris, France
2009 MSc Architecture, École Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture de Montpellier, France
2005 BA Architecture, École Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture de Montpellier, France
Expositions
Personnelles / duo
2021 Make the Clouds Cry, Pengerkatu7Tyohuone, Helsinki, Finland
2021 AwE, Online exhibition, Artist with Evidence, New York City, NY, USA
2020 Accrochage, Atelier Basfroi, Paris, France
2020 (R)éparer le Ciel, Galerie Faure Beaulieu and Galerie S35, Paris, France
2019 Open Window, Fabernovel, Private Collection, Paris, France L’Orféo: Opéra Luette, Musée des Abattoirs, Toulouse, France
2018 AuraFulminis 21, Galerie Hus, Paris, France
2017 Solid Precipitation, LMAK Gallery, New York City, NY , USA
2017 De Lents Semencements, EnsAD, Paris, France
2015 La Fabrique des Nuages, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France
2014 Sur les pas d’Edgar Sibel, Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris, France
Collectives
2022 Espace, Native Volume III, Paris, France Novacène, Gare Saint-Saveur, Lille, France
2022 Art Rotterdam [fair], Galerie Bacqueville, Rotterdam, Netherlands
2022 Hacking Identity Dancing Diversity, ZKM for Esch2022, European Culture Capital, Luxembourg
2022 Art Paris [fair], Fondation Ruinart and Art of Change 21, Paris, France
2022 La Matière du Monde, Galerie Municipale Jean Collet, Vitry, France 2021 Regarder vers le ciel, Galerie des Hospices, Canet en Roussillon, France
2022 Dones, Chapelle des Armées, Amélie les Bains, France
2022 Paradis Artificiels, Galerie Bacqueville, Lille, France
2022 Dans l’œil de Daniel Pommereulle, Galerie Christophe Gaillard, Paris, France Le Regard du Temps, CulturFoundry, Paris, France
2022 Avalanche, PAL Project, Paris, France
2022 Art Paris [fair], Galerie Faure Beaulieu, Paris, France
2020 Programme spécial, Poush Manifesto, Clichy, France O.N, Octobre Numérique, Arles, France
2020 Die Wolken und die Wolke, Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Siegen, Germany In The Clouds, Stavanger Art Museum, Stavanger, Norway
2020 SP Arte 2020 [fair], Luis Maluf Gallery, Sao Paulo, Brazil
2019 Negative Space, ZKM, Karlsruhe, Germany Collapse, Saint Agnes Gallery, Berlin, Germany
2019 Galeriste [fair], Galerie Faure Beaulieu, Paris, France 2018 Regarder l’agreste paysage, Afiac, France
2019 L’intelligence du rêve, Galerie EOF, Paris, France
2019 Vertige, Centre d’art Labanque, Béthune, France
2017 Cloud >< Forest, New Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, Russia
2017 Co-Mutation, Maison des Arts Georges et Claude Pompidou, Cajar, France
2017 L’éternité par les Astres, Centre d’art Les Tanneries, Amilly, France 2016 Birds and Spaces, B4belAb Gallery, Oakland, CA, USA
2017 Lumière de l’Aube (Yoko Ono's guest), Musée d’Art Contemporain de Lyon, France 2015 Formes Elémentaires, Planétarium de Vaulx-en-Velin, France
2017 Nuits des danses perdues, Palais de Tokyo: Hors les Murs, Paris, France
2017 Laps, Carreau de Cergy, Cergy Pontoise, France
2017 Le parfait flâneur, Palais de Tokyo: Hors les Murs, Biennale de Lyon, France Visions d’épigénétique, Galerie de la Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris, France
2014 Capitaine Futur, Gaité Lyrique, Paris, France
Performances
2020 Collection Privée, Pré aux pierres, ADIAF, Conde sur Versgre France
2019 The Very First Sensorium of Artistic Research, Finnish Institute, Paris, France
2019 Festival Nuit Fictions, Ateliers de Paris CDCN, Paris, France 2018 L’orféo: Opéra Luette, Musée des Abattoirs,Toulouse, France
2019 L’intelligence du rêve, Galerie Eof, Paris, France IcadeArt and DesignLab, Aubervilliers, France
2019 Festival Marée Basse, Trouville, France
2019 Performance Pets, Maleki House, Private Collection, London, UK
2017 Co-mutation, Maison des Arts Georges et Claude Pompidou, Cajar, France
2017 L’éternité par les Astres, Centre d’art des Tanneries, Amilly, France 2016 Beneath the Moon, LASALLE, College of the Arts, Singapore
2017 André et les Météores, Galerie Antoine, Paris, France
2015 Le Parfait Flâneur, Palais de Tokyo: Hors les Murs, Biennale de Lyon, France
2017 Vision d’épigénétique, Institut Curie, Paris, France
2017 Nuit des danses perdues, Palais de Tokyo: Hors les Murs, Paris, France
Résidences
2022 French Institute, Phnom Penh, Cambodgia (expected to take place in October) 2018 Fondation Hartung-Bergman, Antibes, France
2017 Maison Daura, Residence Internationale d’Artistes, Saint Cirq Lapopie, France 2014-17 Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris, France
2009 Pimpolhos, Santo Cristovo, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
2006 Center for Advanced Studies on Arid Zones, Atacama desert, Chile
Prix
2022 ArtSituacions III Award, Barcelona, Spain
2021 Prize Art Of Change 21, Paris, France
2020 DICREAM Research Grant, Centre National de Cinématographie (CNC), Paris, France 2018 Mezzanine Award for Contemporary Art, Musée des Abattoirs, Toulouse, France
2013 Gautier Delaye Award, Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris, France
2012 Doctoral grant SACRe, PSL Research University, Paris, France
2006 Scholarship of the French Ministry of Culture, Atacama desert, Chile