by gilles.barbier | Oct 9, 2024
“Checkers”, 2015. (Echo System exhibition, Panorama, Friche Belle de Mai). Checkers is played on a 64-square checkerboard, with 24 pawns, 12 on one side and 12 on the other, arranged in 3 rows of 4. The rules are: move diagonally, forwards, and when a pawn...
by gilles.barbier | Oct 7, 2024
Links to Inhabiting, Pawns, Cabins, End of Illusions. Exhibition at Château du Plessis Fortia, 2014. In 2014, Monique Barbier Mueller gave Gilles Barbier carte blanche to think up an exhibition at her château in Plessis Fortia. A few months later, when the first...
by gilles.barbier | Oct 4, 2024
Inhabiting (The Feast Table II). Museum of Modern Art, Paris, 2014. Link to “Inhabiting” (sculptures). “Inhabiting (The Feast Table II)”, 2014. Mixed media. 195 x 355 x 355 cm. Collection : Museum of Modern Art, Paris.“Inhabiting (The...
by gilles.barbier | Sep 12, 2024
Link to preparatory drawings. The Game Of Life Polygamous trajectories In 1992, exchanging intentionality for chance, Gilles Barbier infused his activities with a singular guidance system. A multitude of operative processes were unleashed via a checkerboard on the...
by gilles.barbier | Sep 20, 2024
Links to Banana Riders, Cheese. The Rink, 2009. (…) Gliding is naturally linked to surf and skate culture; that’s how I approached it and practiced it relentlessly. Today, however, I see it more as a way of thinking, a way of lubricating contradictions and...
