Joachim Monvoisin
Joachim Monvoisin was born in 1987 and graduated from the Beaux-Arts de Quimper in 2010. From 2019 to 2023, he teaches Volume / Design / Sculpture at the Beaux-Arts de Saint-Brieuc and Arts and Techniques at ENSAB in Rennes.
Indeed, his work travels easily between painting, sculpture and cinema. From raw clay to cob, from stone to film sets or woollen rugs, Joachim’s productions move with the flow of encounters and materials. Design, architecture and the desert play an integral role in his creations, alongside walking and wide-open spaces. He equates walking and hiking with the tools of the feet in these outdoor activities. Feet are a medium for approaching the earth and slipping into the folds of the landscape. Behind the notion of landscape, it’s more a question of looking at and contemplating wide-open spaces. An environment that, to be appreciated, often requires you to melt into it.
Landscapes that are immobile because out of time, deserted and sometimes hostile places, where it’s easier to project oneself mentally and make them the stage for narratives where everything seems conceivable, even the improbable.
For Joachim Monvoisin, the artisan’s gesture is essential, and the re-appropriation of traditional skills and techniques is a recurring theme. From all of Joachim Monvoisin’s figures, a relationship to fiction and narrative inexorably emerges, unfolding in the fields of cinema and video. Volumes become sets, costumes or props. And to the three dimensions of space is added the 4th dimension, that of time and movement.
In 2021, he co-founded Supra, an artist and designer runspace near Rennes. The following year, the artist took up residency in Bangkok, Thailand, as part of the “Les archéologues” project. In 2022, he takes part in a collaborative exhibition entitled Le Grand Tour at the Musée Mandet, Riom Gemütlichkeit and Haos Galerie in Nantes. Galerie Ars Longa also welcomed him and fellow artist Charlotte Vitaioli for the exhibition Match avec Marcel in December 2023. Until September 15, 2024, the artist has been chosen to take part in the exhibition Marathon, la course du messager at the Musée de La Poste in Paris, curated by Jean-Marc Huitorel and Dominique Marchès.
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7 November 2023