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Sans titre (water tower 2)
2006
Gilles Barbier
Photography
117,5 x 110,7 cm 2/3
Gilles Barbier challenges reality and give ushis take on the world via an enigmatic and absurd universe: he places us in afictional world which he feels gives meaning to reality. The ambivalent natureof his work and the juxtaposition of ideas and interactions destabilise theviewer, and this sensation is heightened by the absence of all points ofreference in the photographs, through the interplay of volumes, depths,reflections and superposing. Gilles Barbier presents us with a digital universewhere reality is not real but rather a simulation of reality.
Resolutely frolicsome, GillesBarbier’s digital universe confounds the spectator through the play of volumes,reflections, depths of field and superposition. Here, a New York water towerturns into a rocket.
© Adagp, Paris, 2007
Born in Vanuatu, South Pacific ei 1965.
Lives and works in Marseille.
Gilles Barbier sculpts, paints, draws, creates installations, and with cunning humor, sets up a work he qualifies neither as critical, nor documentary, nor problematic, but the sum of as many fiction. He feeds in texts and reflexive tools a continuous stream of drawings and images.
Giles Barbier has been exhibiting his work since 1995 in France, Germany, the Netherlands, Austria, the United States... Pays-bas ou encore en Autriche et aux Etats-Unis. Il a notamment été nominé pour le prix Marcel Duchamp en 2005.
Artwork of
Gilles Barbier
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