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
2010-2012 MFA, Konsthögskolan Valand, Göteborg
2009 Institute of Contemporary Art, Moscow
2007-2010 BFA, Konsthögskolan Valand, Göteborg
Expositions
Personnelles / duo
2022 Gradience, duo show with Charlotte Walentin, Rackstadmuseet, Arvika
2021 The Elsewhere Condition, Norrtälje Konsthall
2020 From a Material Point of View, Gallery Steinsland Berliner, Stockholm
2018 300 Layers, Gallery Steinsland Berliner, Stockholm
2017 In light of absence, Market art fair, Färgfabriken, Stockholm
2016 Ellipsis, duo show with Tomas Lundgren, Galleri Box, Göteborg
2016 The Shadows’ Call, Steinsland Berliner, Stockholm
2014 Self-destruct, Galleri Steinsland Berliner, Stockholm
2012 Eau de Satin, Galleri Rotor, Göteborg
Collectives
2021 Market Art Fair, Liljevalchs Konsthall, Stockholm
2021 Unfolding image, Konstnärshuset, Stockholm
2021 Chart Art Fair, Charlottenborg Kunsthal, Copenhagen, Denmark
2021 Glass Tableware in Still Life, Olle Nymans ateljéer, Saltsjö-Duvnäs
2020 Repetitions, Loko Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2020 Photons, from the sky to the sea. Galeria e Bregdetit, Vlorë, Albania
2020 Chart Art Fair, Stockholm
2019 The family show, Gallery Steinsland Berliner, Stockholm
2018 Our winter show, Gallery Steinsland Berliner, Stockholm
2017 Autumn Sweater, Alma, Stockholm
2016 Our winter show, Galleri Steinsland Berliner, Stockholm
2016 GIFC, Galerie Agnès B, Paris, David Risley Gallery Copenhagen
2016 Market projects, Market art fair, Stockholm
2016 Vårutställning, Galleri Thomassen, Göteborg
2016 Fade to Grey, Liljevalchs Hubb, Stockholm
2015 Our winter show, Galleri Steinsland Berliner, Stockholm
2015 Artists for refugees, Södra teatern, Stockholm
2013 GSB 5 years, Galleri Steinsland Berliner, Stockholm
2012 Anna-Lisa Thomson till minne, Uppsala konstmuseum
2012 Our Winter Show, Galleri Steinsland Berliner, Stockholm
2012 Bomp Bomp. Chik, Chik-a-Chika, Göteborgs Konsthall
2012 Painting for real, Östergötlands Länsmuseum
2011 Boxennial, Galleri Box, Göteborg
2011 Virginia Howells, San Francisco, CA
2010 Our Winter Show, Galleri Steinsland Berliner, Stockholm
2010 Momentum Design, Momentum konsthall, Moss, Norway
2010 Zwölf, Kandidatutställning, Konsthögskolan Valand, Göteborg
2010 Vårsalongen, Liljevalchs konsthall, Stockholm
2009 Drawing so far, Teckningsmuseet Laholm
2008 Ya, Priroda, First Moscow Biennale for Young Art, Moscow
Prix
2021 Exhibition grant, Royal Academy of Art, Sweden
2019 Two year working grant, Swedish Arts Grants Committee
2018 IASPIS Residency, Arts Initiative Tokyo (AIT) Tokyo
2017 Travel grant, Royal Academy of Art, Sweden
2016 One year working grant, Swedish Arts Grants Committee
2015 Helge Ax:son Johnson Stiftelse
2012 Anna-Lisa Thomson till minne
2012 Stiftelsen Eric Ericsson
2012 Eva & Hugo Bergmans minnesfond
2011 Marta, Wivi och Åke Liljesons stiftelse
2009 Travel grant, Arnulfska stipendiefonden