Rémi Bragard

Rémi Bragard was born in 1978, he lives and works in Marseille (FR)

From a certain perspective one can say that Rémi Bragard’s artworks reveals savant curiosity for the scientific object. Sculptural (in large part), they organise formal and technical researchs, with a keen eye for empirical experience. This particular interest for the phenomena (caléfaction, corrosion, and concentration of intensities) fuels the development of an opened work essentially anchored in reality. This work relates inexorably to the world, and finds in its rationalisation a way of proclaming its presence. By decomposing and reproducing with a quite tinkered precision the mechanisms of the reality, the work also tells its potential to act on him. Rémi Bragard’s artwork plays on its performant nature, and when the art is not implied in its roughness, it asserts a certain dangerosity (self-revolving, dissolving, recalling weapons of fortune..). By working with energies and forces of nature, the artist expresses a deaf violence. He conveys the spectator to circle around these objects, whose contained energy, which in essence reveals an artistic practice in tension.

- Text by Guillaume Mansart, 2010