Jérôme Basserode

Jérôme Basserode was born in 1958 in Nice (FR), he lives and works between Paris, Toulon and Lyon (FR)

Since the early 1980s, Basserode’s works have taken the form of sculptures, installations, sketches, and environments, confronting natural materials with domestic furniture structures or salvaged objects. The artist draws on phenomena such as the ephemeral, inversion, and decomposition, reconstructing a vegetal vocabulary in order to adopt a critical stance toward the traditional opposition between nature and culture. By introducing organic elements, he seeks to “cerebralize” nature, to show that it functions in the image of the human brain.

Basserode’s work also revolves around the theme of nomadism, and the closely intertwined notions of time, nature, and memory. This is exemplified by the Mémoires mobiles vivantes (1989), a series of suitcases containing various vegetal or mineral elements, intended to travel around the world. Composed of words, images, sounds, and organic materials, the slow processes the artist employs allow him to confront his own memory with universal or natural memory, as a human experience.

Jérôme Basserode’s work in on display during the exhibitions Authentiques Résidents, 2001 and Trabendo, 2003.