Théo Massoulier
Works
“Spanning sculpture, installation and painting, my work draws as much on the vocabulary of the sciences of evolution and biology as it does on the philosophical issues raised by recent societal evolution.
I am interested in the systemic tensions revealed by the crises of the Anthropocene and in their corresponding aesthetics: the principle of metamorphosis and emergence, fluidification of structures, technologization of life, in light of the concept of entropy and the resource-waste dialectic.
Particularly deliberate with the materials I use, I make meticulous heterogeneous assemblages, generating hybrid and dynamic serial forms where mineral elements, plants and artifacts or scraps of human technē coexist.
My initial series, titled Anthropic Combinations of Entropic Elements, features over 70 assemblages that resemble small protean entities. Together they form a body of work aiming to highlight processes of hybridization. The sculptures, similar to colorful microlandscapes, echo cell culture instruments or small prebiotic matrices. Spaces for growth where the porous and contaminating nature of evolutionary processes would give rise to new bifurcations, new forms, new paths…”
Photo by Blandine Soulage
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Born in 1983, Pertuis (FR), lives and works in Lyon (FR)
STUDIES
2016
MA (Diplôme National Supérieur d’Expression Plastique), École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts de Lyon (FR)
2014
BA (Diplôme National d’Art), École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts de Lyon (FR)
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2024
‘Organism’, Gaep, Bucharest (RO)
2023
‘Job Control’, Galerie Tator, Lyon (FR)
‘Ad Ultra’, Galerie Meessen De Clercq, Brussels (BE)
2022
‘Planktós’, Les Quinconces et L’Espal, Scène nationale du Mans, Le Mans (FR)
2019
‘Kairos’, Kashagan Galerie, Lyon (FR)
2018
‘Varius Multiplex Multiformis’, Galeries Nomades in partnership with IAC Villeurbanne-L’angle, Villeurbanne, La Roche-sur-Foron (FR)
‘Nanogenèse’, Centre d’art Bastille, Grenoble (FR)
‘Turbozoïc’, Centre des Humanités, INSA, Lyon (FR)
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2022
‘Metamorphe(S)’, Musée d’art contemporain de Montélimar (FR)
2020
‘Aquamorphose’, Les Petites Maisons, Paris (FR)
‘Métamorphoses’, Like a Gallery, Saint-Didier-au-Mont-d’Or, Lyon (FR)
‘Much without many’, Galerie Meessen De Clercq, Brussels (BE)
‘Nouvelles Floraisons’, Galerie Françoise Besson, Lyon (FR)
‘Index2K20-21’, Galerie Kashagan, Lyon (FR)
2019
‘Là où les eaux se mêlent’, Lyon Biennial, IAC Villeurbanne, Villeurbanne (FR)
‘Experientia!’, Château de Lunéville, Lunéville (FR)
2018
‘InDex 2K’, Galerie Kashagan, Lyon (FR)
2017
‘HyperPavilion’, Arsenale Nord, Venice (IT)
2016
‘Throwing Balls in the Air’, Academiae Youth Art Biennial, Fortezza (IT)
‘Pending’, Réfectoire des nonnes, École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts, Lyon (FR)
2015
‘Cryptogypse’, L’espace rencontre, École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts, Lyon (FR)
RESIDENCIES & AWARDS
2023
Résidence Art & Entreprise at Ducaroy Grange, with the support of DRAC Auvergne Rhône-Alpes (FR)
2018
Moly-Sabata, Fondation Albert Gleizes, Sablons (FR)
Prix Galeries Nomades des amis de l’IAC de Villeurbanne (FR)
