Experiencing the Ordinary

Nuit Blanche

Paris, France

2018

Benjamin Loyauté

Invited by Rubis Mécénat cultural fund, Benjamin Loyauté presents, for his first solo exhibition in France, the latest chapter of his work-in-progress at the Palais de la Porte Dorée, Paris, inaugurated for Nuit Blanche.
With this exhibition, the artist pursues his meditation on the magic of the ordinary and the importance of the intangible heritage in our societies, through a work that intertwines film, installation, sculpture and performance. The work that triggered this focus on the ordinary, Candygraphy, is an edible sweet/sculpture whose shape calls to mind a strange, ancient sculpture.
The exhibition encourages visitors to think about the paradox and the radicality revealed by our relationship to the simple things that surround us yet escape our notice ; thus challenging our perception of the ordinary.

Benjamin Loyauté

Benjamin Loyauté (born in 1979, Normandy) is a French visual artist who lives and works between Brussels, Paris, Cusco and Madagascar. His practice investigates the invisible logics that structure and unsettle our relation to the world: perception, collective narratives, hubris and transmission. Through sculpture, film, installation and performance, he develops an ecology of meaning where each work becomes both an object of meditation, of dissemination, and a vector of affective, cognitive and cultural connections. Inspired by phenomenology, geopolitics and the social sciences, he pursues research on language and social sculpture. Recognized for his work on immateriality and societal transformations, he also questions the forms of attention capture and the value of the common good. His personal stories are never far: they resurface as unstable variables, turning his practice into a continuous field of experimentation. His works have been exhibited at the MoMA (New York), the Power Station of Art (Shanghai), the MUDAM (Luxembourg), the Musée national de l’histoire de l’immigration (Paris), Kanal-Centre Pompidou (Brussels), Hakanto Contemporary (Antananarivo), the MAMC+ (Saint-Étienne) and Somerset House (London), where he represented the first French Pavilion at the London Design Biennale 2016 with a hybrid installation and a film. Through his series WeArtChange and projects such as Voir la mer, Déposséder le mondeand L’Ultimo Regalo, he conceives art as a tool for attention, subjectivation, emancipation and active resistance.

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