Jean-Baptiste Bouvet

Jean-Baptiste Bouvet was born in 1980, he lives and works in Berlin (DE).

“In my work, multiple experiments with materials, formats, spatiality, and movement are juxtaposed without hierarchy. Concretely, the raw and unmounted canvas, color, project drawing, language, video, etc., are subjected to reductions, reversals, or assemblages. These forms unfold in dramatic or derisory, generic or specific stagings. The slow and meticulous execution of the pieces also introduces a sense of sensuality.

By questioning the paradoxes inspired by the emergence of painting, I end up dividing its materiality, desacralizing it, denying it in bad faith—or, conversely, practicing it (particularly color) in desperate, monochromatic forms.” - Jean-Baptiste Bouvet