Works
Sand Drawings (notebook in progress).
Sand Drawings (notebook in progress). Sand drawings are a tradition in the Vanuatu archipelago. These compositions, often very elaborate and complex, are created by running the index finger over a carpet of sand or ash. The finger must never return to the same line or...
Checkers. Logbook.
Checkers. Logbook (pencil and ink, gouache highlights on notebook). This logbook documents the Checkers game, which took place with 24 Pawns between August 28 and December 01, 2015 at the Panorama, Friche Belle de Mai, during the exhibition Echo System...
The Book of Errors.
Link: Copy of the Dictionary.The Book of Errors (excerpts). The history of errors is recorded beforehand in a notebook: the Errors book, whose presentation and organization are left up to the user. Extract from the dictionary copy protocol. (1992)
Interviews (vol. I). 1995-2006.
Link to Interviews (vol. II).Interviews (volume I, 1995-2006). Criticism, a baroque mirror, often reflects back to the artist a surprising image of his work. Sometimes they reveal treasures, sometimes bedbugs that stick to you for a long time. But for a young artist,...
Interviews (Vol. II). In progress.
Link to Interviews (volume I, 1995-2006).Interviews (vol. II). In progress.
Book of Trajectories
The Book of Trajectories. Flight routes between 19 planets.
Popcorn.
Popcorns (vol. I).
The Book of Bombs (vol. I)
The Book of Bombs (vol. I).
The Book of Planes.
The Book of Planes. Link: Variations on an island and traces in the sky.
The Papuan Book.
The Papuan Book.
Drawings and plans for bonsai huts.
Link to Cabins, Inhabiting (Feasts), Inhabiting painting.Plans and drawings for "Cabin in a Bonsai", (selection) 2010. Day by day... No overall plan is tenable when building on a tree. Plans are made from day to day, in the same way that a menu is dictated by the...
Mudmen.
Mudmen (notebook in progress).
Six Short Stories.
Six Short Stories. (The falling of the Dice Man: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6). Six Short Stories uses the codes of the comic strip to explore a notion dear to Gilles Barbier: the suspension of choice. The time he describes as the latent moment that precedes any choice...
Introduction to Science Fiction.
Introduction to Science Fiction (selection).
End of Illusions.
End of Illusions
Variations.
Links : Shipwrecks, Book of Shipwrecks, Preparatory drawings Shipwrecks.Variations Through simple elements, the "Variations" translate a protocol of exhaustion. A protocol often invoked by Gilles Barbier. These small formats, worked with fine pen on paper, ensure...
Erotic drawings (notebook I).
Erotic drawings (notebook I).
Elements of Language.
Elements of Language.