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Jérémy LAFFON, born in 1978 in Limoges,
lives and works in Marseille.

websites : documentsdartistes.org/artistes/laffon
jeremylaffon.com
book .pdf
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Treasure from Mexico, 2012-2013
Video, HD, 16:9, color, stéréo Duration : about 120 hours


On the surface, Jeremy Laffon Artworks tickle viewer’s imagination by a sense of absurd handled with lightness, concise pictures and simple forms exploring evocative potential of their components : objects related to the activities of ordinary life, such as ping pong balls, tops, phone books, cartridges rifle, chewing gum... and other utensils or accessories which do not refer so much to the game world itself as more widely to a certain type of activities somewhere between the category of small works and that of hobbies. Whether they are sculpture, drawing, installation, video, or even object, an expression of know-how achieved in misuse can be detected, a process that reinvests in material terms resources of paradox. Insist on the point : Jeremy Laffon practice is not merely an art of pun that would operate with simple displacement, inversion, or meaning effect, but deeply plastic and materialistic poetics merging idea and craft, literaly operating on symbolic matter of its ingredients by a patient work processing the material that sustains some challenging energy. Absurd poetics is not only comic, but also a lever for creative momentum : it suspends limitations of good sense that commonly define a project value depending on the relation between time, energy, and skills it requires with regard to the presumed interest for the result.
Camille Videcoq, 2012
translation : Charley Vecten

 

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SOLO Exhibitions (selection)
2013
Galerie Interface, Dijon (20 sept.-26 oct. 2013)

2012
Vidéochroniques, Marseille (2012)

2011
Galerie Isabelle Gounod, Paris
Galerie la Non-Maison (avec le Frac Paca), Aix-en-Provence

2009
au Centre d’art le Lait-Albi

2008
Galerie L.A.A.C.S./La vitrine, Limoges
Ecole supérieure d’Arts décoratifs de Strasbourg


group Exhibitions (selection)
2013
Centre d’art contemporain de Meymac (6 juil.-13 oct. 2013) ;

2012
Galerie LAC&S / La Vitrine, Limoges
PANORAMA / 6e biennale d'art contemporain de Bourges
AFIAC / + si affinité, Saint-Paul Cap de Joux
Festival Oodaaq, Rennes

2011
Supervues, Vaison-la-Romaine
Galerie Isabelle Gounod, Paris (de 2009 à 2011)
Salon du dessin contemporain, Paris (2010-2011)

2010
le BBB – centre d’art, Toulouse
SLICK, Paris

2009
Centre d’art le Lait, Castres
Galerie Les filles du Calvaire
The Nunnery Gallery (Bow Art Trust), Londres (2009 et 2007) 

2008
Musée d'Art Contemporain de Marseille (avec Vidéochroniques)


Residences / priZes
2013
Lauréat Mécènes du Sud

2012
Ateliers d’artistes de la Ville de Marseille (2010-2012)

2011
Lycée Militaire d’Aix-en-Provence, avec le Frac Paca
Aide à l’installation, DRAC PACA

2010
Astérides, Marseille

2008
Centre d’art le LAIT, Albi (2008-2009)
Aide Individuelle à la Création, DRAC Limousin (2008)


publiC Collections
Fonds Régional d’Art Contemporain du Limousin
Artothèque de la Ville de Strasbourg
Fonds Communal d’Art Contemporain de la Ville de Marseille
Fonds Départemental des Nouveaux Collectionneurs, Bouches-du-Rhône
Artothèque du Limousin

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