Since the early 2000s, Loris Gréaud has developed a singular trajectory in the international contemporary art scene whereby he constructs unique environments to house disruptive elements, often with an ambiguous narrative that blurs the boundaries between fiction and reality. Rumors, poetry, viruses, architecture and demolition, academicism and self-negation are therefore regularly summoned in his work as it strives to oppose the separation between physical and mental spaces.
Loris news for 2023-2024:
— Early October 2023, a major solo exhibition of Loris Gréaud, entitled /MIˈÆNDƏ(ɹ)/ (meander) will open at Petit Palais, musée des Beaux-Arts de Paris — 10 years exactly after the previous joined exhibitions of Loris at Musée du Louvre and Centre Pompidou, entitled [I].
— Earlier this year, Loris Gréaud’s monograph published by Hatje Cantz: « The Unplayed Notes & The Underground Sculpture Park — 2012-2020 », with an essay by Nicolas Bourriaud has been awarded of the IDA Design awards (Bronze Medal) & the DNA Paris Design awards (Honorable mention).
— Next month, Loris Gréaud will officially become an ambassador for The Sense of Silence Foundation : http://www.thesenseofsilencefoundation.com/
This foundation created by Pr Michel André gives Nature a voice that everyone can hear…
And more, still to be announced with the continuation of /MIˈÆNDƏ(ɹ)/ (meander) in Geneva, Roma and New York.
Loris Gréaud, The Unplayed Notes & The Underground Sculpture Park, 2022. Photo Credits : Realism Noir. © Hatje Cantz, Gréaudstudio Éditions, Loris Gréaud.
– What are the biggest challenges you have met in your career?
My biggest everyday challenge is to keep as intact as possible the intensity of the statement defined by the work itself: only the project is making authority, the project defines the form, the trajectories, the time, the duration, the economy, its apparition same as the production and the loss…
– How would you describe your work?
I hope that it is challenging…I hope it is challenging in all the steps and processes including its reception, experience and reading, it is such a chance to have the opportunity of producing things that create opacity. Opacity is rare, beautiful and productive, art is what makes things opaque.
– How is your passion for visual art and design born?
My passion for art is born with the encounter of true and raw poetry. Quite young and without any culture or knowledge of art of any kind — and by complete accident — I was put in front of Stan Brakhage experimental film from 1958 « Anticipation of the night ». I had no idea, no clue of what I was looking at, but in a complete aesthetic choc, just like an alien signal, brutal poetry changed me forever, the very first access of something that communicates before it is understood.
– What is the most difficult work you have done and why?
A virus is still at work… that’s — what I believe — a very healthy question that all artists should ask themselves as it automatically and honestly measures and defines where you stand: What are you ready to loose to make sense?
– What is your main source of inspiration?
My cats Erwin and Erwin and this James Graham Ballard testament called «what I believe ».
https://www.jgballard.ca/uncollected_work/what_i_believe.html
– What about your next project?
In a couple weeks : the expedition of my life ! 4 years in the making, in the cradle of our world, with my team, friends and long-term collaborators Pr Francesco Sauro and Pr Michel André in the quest of the ultimate ready made…
In early spring, I’ll reveal and inaugurate publicly a permanent work, a monument entitled /dʌv/ (dove) for the fantastic Maison Dubuisson, which stands in Domaine de Frapotel, owned by my friends and prominent influential Architects Gaëlle Lauriot-Prévost and Dominique Perrault.
In October 2023, The Museum of Art and History Geneva (MAH) and Petit Palais, Musée des Beaux-Arts de la ville de Paris are teaming up for a very exciting and multi-venues monographic show that will unfold through 2024 (program to be announced). I’m eager to share those and experience them in the exact same moment as the viewers…
Loris Gréaud, Portrait with Erwin & Erwin, 2023.
Photo credits: Realism Noir