François-Xavier Courrèges
Born in 1974 in Paris, where he lives and works.
It is the simplicity of the means used that immediately characterises the work of François-Xavier Courrèges. Videos, photos, drawings, whose accuracy is played out in almost nothing. His work hits the nail on the head, evoking feelings of love, disappointment and the fragility of people and things without pathos, rather with lightness. The loop and the slow motion serve the image like the soundtrack (most often musical and made by the artist) by creating a kind of hypnotic effect. Tiny nuances, a sensitivity on the edge of the screen, a direct writing devoid of stylistic effects, the efficiency here is linked to the absence of spectacular.