Olivier Babin

Born in 1975 in Dijon.
lives and works in Paris.
Olivier Babin is represented in Paris by galerie frank elbaz.

The work of Olivier Babin looks at how the culture industry, communication, marketing, economic and political ownership forms directly from abstract art, conceptual and minimal. He directly appropriates historical forms (cover, remake, tribute), or that plays these forms through popular culture, his works are always use humor and movement to create spaces of autonomy, at once poetic and disenchanted.
For the exhibition Enlarge your practice, Olivier Babin takes a humorous contemporary phenomena of the most controversial: reality TV. Using a minor performance and conceptual artist committed prior to exposure to a physical and mental preparation to enable it to survive and even win races Kohlanta game released throughout the summer on TF1. It gives us exposure in a lengthy account of his activities and reflections.

Founded in 1999, in Cergy Pontoise

Bad Beuys Entertainment, an artist collective founded in 1999 in Cergy Pontoise, borrows its operation to that of the youth gang: the hierarchy within the group is not clearly defined, the number of members fluctuates and their involvement is uneven, decisions are going to fly, the consensus on. The group takes a "crossover". Currently the group is composed of two members, Olivier Cazin and Matthew Clainchard, which have in common practice and knowledge of life in urban and peri-and a "suburban culture". BBE navigates the twists and turns of a broad spectrum of activities and references: tags, rap, the ransacking, insults, cars burned, sub-urban environment, economy, urban legends, large buildings, popular culture, ubiquitous television, urban, hip-hop and graffiti.
With the draft Land Escape, a huge installation of 500 m2 for the first time, they import the teen culture of squatting in the heart of the exhibition space. Land Escape is the 1-scale reproduction of a roof - terrace at the same time meeting place of a privileged youth idle and unproductive and regular pattern of a film production - put on the floor of the gallery . During the exhibition, installation, operational, could become a playground or boredom. Waste, including cigarette and beer, the evening of the opening will remain as irrefutable proof of life imported from the roof.

Olaf Breuning

Born in 1970 in Schaffhausen, Switzerland.
Lives and works in New York and Zurich.

www.olafbreuning.com

In the form of photographs, video projections and installations, the work of Olaf Breuning away and merges a number of cultural codes drawn from fields as diverse as contemporary art, music (pop, heavy metal, techno , etc..), film, television or advertising, fashion magazines, video-clip that strengthens uses offset, both "missed" and control of the false and bad taste. With this existing vocabulary and overdetermined, the artist develops aesthetic universe, however, a personal and independent, marked primarily by the hybridization and indeterminacy, blurring all kinds of limits and boundaries between genres and genders, between the real and fiction.

Exposure to Enlarge Your Practice, Swiss artist presents the video installation King on the borders of American road movie and role play. The scene takes the form of a game that had gone wrong, featuring a medieval knight who failed on the ground would have been expelled from the video screen on which are broadcast live their own adventures. It also presents a diptych video Chris Croft (1998) to see who gives in first, the show disenchanted vandalized a car stranded in the forest, then in a second step, a group of young people sleeping on a yacht . In the center is a mysterious character dressed in a black hood and yellow baskets makes a strange esoteric choreography.

Wilfrid Almendra

Born in 1972 in Cholet
Lives and works in Paris


Wilfrid Almendra built a unique practice of sculpture. It is indeed those who work coltine all milling, sanding, cutting, chainsaw massacre at the meetings and lean, he knows how, or learn on the job. Backsleep in a hangar, one of his recent sculptures, takes on the appearance of campfire at the end of the world lit by Mad Max and maintained by a new-age unemployment, which rises from the flames jeans moletonné an outbreak of cement and gravel, topped by a giant motorcycle crankcase. The work of Wilfrid Almendra actually stand on the edge of abstraction
and figuration, giving rise to a narrative sculpture. Each of these achievements adopt a particular assumption, combining references to art history to popular imagery. They give them to visit a heritage of common object, seen from an angle to both poetry and distant, to optimism and an account which was not our eyes.
On the occasion of the exhibition Enlarge your practice, it plays the shape of the skatepark in a multi drop entirely based tiles with rounded shapes directly imported from flats in the south of France.

Brody Condon

Born in 1974 in Mexico City.
Lives and works in New York.

www.virgilgallery.com

"My life is a vast ghetto, inhabited by elves néotolkiens, launch missiles, endless hordes of gorillas surmusclés, terrorists-of-day, troglodytes, vampires, tanks ..." Brody Condon has bathed in video games until the brutality, "I did it." Since he filed controllers, but continues to be interested in a review. Adept deflection and changes in the game, it is involved in or related to projects such as Velvet-Strike, 9-11 Survivor or Waco Resurrection. Fake Screenshot Contest in a more personal project, it is a collection of images created by artists, friends, students or young people he met: "At first it was a gallery on the web before the images are printed and displayed in the exhibition Killer Instinct (1) that has just ended at the New Museum in New York. The purpose of this friendly competition was to create screens of video games that do not exist.

On the occasion of the exhibition, Brody Condon presents a video entitled Suicide Solution in which the artist grows in its entrenchments logic video game and directed a series of suicides of people.

Stéphane Dafflon

Jochen Dehn

Alain Della Negra
Born in 1975 in Versailles.
Lives and works in Paris.
Kaori Kinoshita
Born in 1971 in Tokyo.
Lives and works in Paris.


Alain Della Negra and Kaori Kinoshita, artists and documentarians, explore virtual worlds. On the occasion of the exhibition Enlarge Your Practice, the team gives us a sneak preview of a series of documentary portraits of players telling their "birth" on Second Life. If the ritual which avatars subject is always the same, arriving on a desert island, learning to walk and language - by a parrot! - Each experience is unique. And it is in the gap between experience and virtual reality with subtlety qu'oscille their work.

Olivier Dollinger

Cyprien Gaillard

Born in 1980 in Paris.
Lives and works in Paris.
www.laurabartlettgallery.com

At the exhibition the young Cyprien Gaillard presents a short film featuring acts of vandalism (smoke explosion) on a romantic landscape. It also presents a triptych of large video set to music by his band The Landsc Apes. The first part shows a violent clash of hooligans in the parking lot of a town on the outskirts of Saint Petersburg, Russia. Identifiable by the color of their clothes, like two football teams, the two "bands" enemy clearly engaged in a real battle. The video, apparently filmed from the window of a nearby building, to be seen throughout the choreography of the riot.

The second part of Desniansky Raion is no less striking: a video, bought by the artist with the mayor of Meaux near Paris documents the spectacular destruction of a bar flats at a huge sound and light. The third and final part of the video of Cyprien Gaillard completes forge a genuine poetics of chaos: an ultralight, on which is embedded a camera flies over the area without permission Desniansky Raion in the snowy suburbs of Kiev (Belarus). The multitude of austere buildings, first order, will soon be replaced by a set of towers arranged in a perfect circle, referring to the megalithic monument of Stonehenge in England.

Fabien Giraud

Born in 1980.
Lives and works in Paris.

This young artist of 26 years produces videos performance. He organizes a concert "straight edge" (this vegetarian punk movement, both radical and Nietzsche, born in California in the late 1970s), during which he imagines a choreography involving more than 200 people. Furthermore, it features three mini motorcycles, both brilliant sculptures perched on a podium and fun items that are taken for large when, suddenly, the engine starts to hum.

To Enlarge your practice, working with Fabien Giraud Raphaël Siboni. They will present their new movie, Friendly Fire, an installation consisting of two videos shot in 16 / 9 format, projected side by side. Each video is to see an airsoft party based on the same scenario replayed under different parameters. On the one party to another, the rules are changed, the time is redefined and the spatial configuration varies. While at left, 200 people compete in the middle of a plain on an area of 500 square meters, the right part is replayed by the same number of players and at the same place in only 50 square meters.

Pierre Joseph

Born in 1965 in Caen.
Lives and works in Montpellier.
www.airdeparis.com

The popularity of Peter Joseph is based mainly on the Characters Live (reactivate). An actor a legendary reactive (Superman, Sleeping Beauty, Don Quixote) or generic (a leprosy, a medieval warrior, a witch). In "What I see" to which he invites the viewer is a "what do I know?" it meets today. Pierre Joseph relies skills for life: to learn Japanese (Akane), baseball (My own experience of baseball), work in an industry (Join the work in Japan, knowledge). The works of Pierre Joseph designate this condition, this kind of social and professional, which today significantly alters our relationship to knowledge, work, time and history. Précarité which became an issue in the construction of identity where the individual is the question of adaptation - in the case of his maladjustment. Pierre Joseph is assumed that an artist incomplete, inadequate and whose engine would know that the steps would be the only production.

For the exhibition, he presents one of his characters to reactivate "the surfer" who walk the night of the opening of the visitors, and a video, dated from the late 90s, who features in a laborious learning snowboarding.

Emmanuelle Lainé

Thomas Lélu

Born in 1976.
Lives and works in Paris.
www.thomaslelu.net

Across the world, a handful of individuals strange features a t-shirt with the inscription "I am Thomas Lelu. From Tokyo to London and Paris via Rennes where he dresses a horde of young girls in flower, congeners sister of the artist. "For the moment what I do best is my name," says Thomas Lelu without laughter which immediately adds a layer "between the biblical degeneration and large gag is an aberration and it is ça me plait. " The same Thomas Lelu to whom we owe the ébouriffantes novel "My name is Jeanne Mass" or the first "Manual of the missed photo.
More recently Lelu painter himself with a series of canvases to bomb the puns imbitables.
Exposure to Enlarge Your Practice, presents the series Colin Maillard conducted in 2004, a panorama of images collected amateur exhibitionists on the Internet. On these pictures almost raw (the artist that does a few cropping), individuals appear masked but discovered sex. It will also conduct a performance unprecedented on the evening of the opening. Inspired by the phenomenon of Flashmob, appointments ephemeral launched via mobile phones, he invites a tribe of young teenagers to dance to their favorite music. Except that the choreography is silent collective, each participant on i-pod and other helmets ...

Anthony Patti

Julien Prévieux

Born in 1974.
Lives and works in Paris.
www.previeux.net

This 32-year-old artist who defines it as a "low-tech hacking" of the real, has gained a few years ago thanks to its "letter of no motivation." Spokesman discrete precarious youth, he began with a bit of provocation to respond in the negative to multiple job offers harvested in the press. He still will make the legendary James Bond to plenty of special effects from parasitize a plot of already overcrowded tricks of all kinds, or, more recently, collect the fingerprints of a Nicolas Sarkozy used to control more than
be controlled.
Return to sender therefore at Julien Prévieux that this exposure to Enlarge Your Practice a series of three movies based on videos of skate 90 years. In Crash Test - Mode d'emploi (1'30''), the artist rushes on all he meets along the way, architecture, furniture, cars and passersby with a determination worthy of the best gags of Jackass. This obstacle course is divided into a series of sketches which the mechanical and absurd humor is reminiscent of a burlesque film to Buster Keaton. In rolls (5'30''), an individual armed with a motorcycle helmet, leaves his bed, fell down the stairs, ride all day in various places before returning to its pénates by the same means. Physical performance, overcome difficult but, less responsive to an intervention on the limits of the body and the need to invent new behaviors and record them in a daily reality.

Marroussia Rebecq

Born in 1975 in Bordeaux.
Lives and works in Paris.
www.andreacrews.com

Through Andrea Crews, Maroussia Rebecq combines several aspects of contemporary creation. Between art and fashion, it presents and stages its collections as a performance, happening, video clip, creating multiple events at the borders of art and the everyday. Maroussia Rebecq federates and actors associated with the cultural scene of contemporary artists, designers, videographers, DJs, from different backgrounds, but from the same popular culture and eccentric, experimental and playful ...
For the exhibition Enlarge your practice, the activist artist presents a video made in 2006 at the Palais de Tokyo on the occasion of the exhibition History together the young French scene. It is seen débouler strength with a team of costumed cranks in the exhibition areas. The merry troupe engages in collective delirium and harmless, yet close to lucubrations regressive collective Jackass.

Lionel Scoccimaro

Raphael Siboni

Born in 1981.
Lives and works in Paris and Roubaix.

This young artist has 25 years in collaboration with Fabien Giraud a video installation that looks like a mural. Entitled Friendly Fire in reference to a figure of video games, the film split into two giant screens to see a given part of the airsoft (set of hyper realistic military role), organized by the two artists in a plain of Beauce . Realism of the costumes, weapons and actions of each of the extras (over 200 players in total), added the events of a virtual conflict. The different teams intersect, intertwine the different scenarios. Here, an army of zombies is opposed to the military, who are opposed to a sect, a group that tortures the GIGN ... Several inconsistent fictions are played simultaneously.

In parallel Raphaël Siboni this film a little along the lines of the fan-films and inspired by the aesthetics and the narrative of Star Wars. The screening is accompanied by a set of modular sculptures made for the shooting of the film in Sologne.

Jim Skuldt

Kolkoz is represented in Paris by Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin

Raphael Zarka

Guillaume Segur