Weapon. A solo exhibition by Benoit Maire

15 Mar-11 May 2013

Overview

Benoît Maire continues to ask a simple question: can theory be a form? In seeking an answer, his work deals with the structures of knowledge, occasionally deconstructing them, occasionally duplicating them, and occasionally orchestrating their driftings. His projects, films, installations and series are alive: certain motifs appear again and again (geometry, furniture, the figure of the blind), certain forms change state (from the metaphorical to the functional, from object to work of art, from clue to demonstration and so on). His installations refer to vast but well-defined fields of knowledge, from the history of cinema to philosophy, by way of mythology and modern art.