Guillaume Constantin
Guillaume Constantin is an Astérides Resident in 2007. The archives of Triangle-Astérides do not allow for the determination of the exact dates or the duration of this residency in 2007.
Guillaume Constantin was born in 1974, he lives and works in Paris (FR)
In a subtly offbeat manner, Guillaume Constantin’s sculptures and drawings reconfigure, through ready-made materials and a wide formal vocabulary (from the monolith to medieval statuary, from the photocopier to the power strip), various elements that are usually decorative or functional.
This shift, where the absence of image, style, or utility gives these works a peculiar autonomy, questions the art object as much as the everyday object, as well as the spaces they inhabit. The works aspire to be unstable, precarious, ephemeral, like bodies. Autonomous pieces that interrogate their own status through strange, symbolic dysfunctions, where the idea justifies the material, the material the function, and vice versa, to the point of absurdity.
Another aspect of this practice lies in the attention given to drawing. Present even in the seams, joints, and other assembly elements of the volumes, it takes on different materialities depending on the context of the installation. Photographic images also return us to a distorted everyday life, a kind of strange and displaced déjà vu.
