Romain Rambaud

Romain Rambaud lives and works in Nantes (FR)

“The sculptures are a reflection of a surrounding world as a collision of objects.
My work involves collecting elements from urban or natural landscapes in order to shift perception and find a balance between reality and its fictional model. This process inherently requires representation.

Representation is approached both as a necessity and a façade:
A necessity in the desire to cast a critical eye on space and to reclaim it through representation;
A façade in the sense that these three-dimensional pieces are perceived as substitutes for the things they are meant to depict.

These figurative sculptures revolve around the opposition between nature and the contemporary city — sometimes as an imposing, artificial backdrop, or through the use of signs and objects from our everyday lives. The sculptures question the status of the object, of decor, of architecture and illusion, through shifts from environment to object, from original to substitute, from illusion to trickery.

They are all diluted into recognizable forms, because the interest lies not only in the figurative element, but in its potential to embody a particular way of approaching the world.”