“Creating a shift, crossing the line into the setting, making a mockery or playing innocent, poking fun at aesthetic ideals, pushing materials to their limits, juggling pop culture references, throwing people off balance: Joachim Monvoisin’s work follows a whimsical logic that factors in the escape routes that art is likely to provide. From architecture to quantum physics, from the western genre to illuminati blogs, his work holds the world in an oblique embrace, and thus escapes any strict designation – referentiality – to enter the realm of speculative evocation. Voyage, voyage.” Excerpt from a text by Eva Prouteau, written on the occasion of the exhibition Le principe d’incertitude, Centre d’art de […]
“Creating a shift, crossing the line into the setting, making a mockery or playing innocent, poking fun at aesthetic ideals, pushing materials to their limits, juggling pop culture references, throwing people off balance: Joachim Monvoisin’s work follows a whimsical logic that factors in the escape routes that art is likely to provide. From architecture to quantum physics, from the western genre to illuminati blogs, his work holds the world in an oblique embrace, and thus escapes any strict designation – referentiality – to enter the realm of speculative evocation. Voyage, voyage.”
Excerpt from a text by Eva Prouteau, written on the occasion of the exhibition Le principe d’incertitude, Centre d’art de Pontmain, 2016.
Avec « Alors que nous arrivions au sommet il nous parut soudain évident que la route serait encore longue », Joachim Monvoisin a travaillé autour de l’idée du fantasme, de l’imaginaire. La pièce, aménagée dans un petit coin du vaste espace, se présente comme une brèche vers un ailleurs, comme une porte menant droit à un univers parallèle, comme une invitation au voyage…
