Benoit Maire is an inhabitant of Paris, where he has become known for art works that develop in collaboration with other artists, philosophers and various fictional characters. His work requires the viewer to spend time inhabiting, in both a physical and mental sense, the disarticulated aesthetic system that he has elaborated. Rather than obsessively looking for an understanding of his philosophical references, Maire's practice demands of the viewer a personal response to the poetics of space, whether this space be the page of a book, the duration of a lecture, an exhibition or display of common objects. Maire's oeuvre ultimately relies on an intuitive and affective process of creation, into which knowledge and cultural references chaotically feed.