Hugues Reip
Hugues Reip is an Astérides Resident in 1995. The archives of Triangle-Astérides do not allow for the determination of the exact dates of this six months residency in 1995.
Hugues Reip was born in 1964 in Cannes (FR), he lives and works in Paris (FR)
A versatile artist, graphic designer, video maker, photographer, and sculptor, Hugues Reip seeks to bring out unusual and surprising aspects of an object, a place, or a situation. “I remember the engravings that accompanied the stories of Jules Verne which, by making the unreal real, evoked a world that would have a body, a time, a visible space different from our own… but in the same place,” explains the artist. By pulling ordinary, trivial objects out of banality and altering certain elements such as scale, Reip creates irrational atmospheres in which the viewer is confronted with a universe whose objects are so distorted as to no longer be conceivable.
- Text by Nadine Labedade