Gaspar Willmann
B. 1995, Works and lives in : Paris
Education : Hochschule für bildende Künste Hamburg, École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Lyon
Through his practice of video, installation and painting, Gaspar Willmann seizes everyday objects, forms and images, mobilizes collective representations and behaviors to question their circulation and the issues at stake in the context of a technocratic society which acts on affects.
« (…) Where the confusion of the real and the simulacrum was often synonymous with alienation, derealization and extrication, it is now a way of inhabiting the world, the only experience that may be possible »
– Sarah Ilher Meyer
” Art is a way to mop up and reproduce the patterns of its time while inscribing them in timelessness and universality”