Joffrey Ferry
The Associate Artists program has only existed since 2023, but when publishing our archives online (in 2025), we chose to include former Residents of Astérides and Triangle France who, living in Marseille, would today be considered as such.
Joffrey Ferry is an Astérides Resident in 2002. The archives of Triangle-Astérides do not allow for the determination of the exact dates or the duration of this residency in 2002.
Joffrey Ferry lives and works in Marseille (FR)
The reverse side of production is destruction. This is one of the principles of consumer society: every object produced is destined to become an object destroyed. The car crash, the “crash,” is the ultimate stage on which the duel between subject and object is played out.
That is, in its metaphysical dimension, where the life drive and the death drive collide. And in this relationship of attraction and repulsion, nothing is settled. Is it a revenge of the object, abruptly escaping the passivity to which the subject had until then confined it? Is it a reconciliation? (Thus, the car crash could be the event that breaks the world’s duality—where the subject contains the object, and the object contains the subject).
Is it, in the spirit of Zen philosophy, a manifestation of “the concrete intuition of the fundamental unity of all things”? Or is it the tragic and violent consequence of overabundance? One way or another, the human body appears as a sacrificial substance, and the crash becomes, through reversibility, a ritual inherent to consumption and necessary to its balance.
Joffrey Ferry’s work is on display during the exhibition Trabendo, 2003 and Centre Ville South, 2005.
