Benoît Pailley
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Exposition : « Two minutes late » de Benoit Pailley à la galerie madé
Benoit Pailley vit et travaille entre New York et Paris. Il puise son inspiration dans l'art contemporain. Il construit des installations qui forment les objects d'une manière unique. Sa première exposition solo "Passport" a été présentée en mars 2008 à la Flux Foundation à Genève.
Son exposition en solo "Two Minutes Late" mêle à la fois la photographie et la vidéo.
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Benoit Pailley - Swimming Blue
On a perfect sunny day a huge tarpaulin, hung to protect and screen a building under construction, comes partly loose from its support and is lifted by the wind. A fairly nondescript event in itself that might leave one totally indifferent, apart from the problem it creates for the site workers who have to attach it again. For Benoit Pailley, however, it is something more than a minor inconvenience on a building site: there is an implied, metaphoric meaning, an aesthetic quality that becomes the allegory for an existential hypothesis.
The French artist decides to capture the moment, halting the movement by taking photos from below looking up, and to record the flapping motion with a digital video camera. The result is the installation Swimming Blue, created specifically for the gallery, in which a series of images of ...
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Benoit Pailley vit et travaille entre New York et Paris. Il puise son inspiration dans l'art contemporain. Il construit des installations qui forment les objects d'une manière unique. Sa première exposition solo "Passport" a été présentée en mars 2008 à la Flux Foundation à Genève.
Son exposition en solo "Two Minutes Late" mêle à la fois la photographie et la vidéo.
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On a perfect sunny day a huge tarpaulin, hung to protect and screen a building under construction, comes partly loose from its support and is lifted by the wind. A fairly nondescript event in itself that might leave one totally indifferent, apart from the problem it creates for the site workers who have to attach it again. For Benoit Pailley, however, it is something more than a minor inconvenience on a building site: there is an implied, metaphoric meaning, an aesthetic quality that becomes the allegory for an existential hypothesis.
The French artist decides to capture the moment, halting the movement by taking photos from below looking up, and to record the flapping motion with a digital video camera. The result is the installation Swimming Blue, created specifically for the gallery, in which a series of images of ...