Théophile PERIS

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Born in 1997 in Agen. Lives and works between Moncrabeau and Marseille.
«…Following the artist’s journey, his travels and digressions, sometimes detours; clinging on like the rapae and letting himself be carried away to germinate elsewhere, or following the song of a nightingale to change course, leaving room for the unexpected but also for the encounters one might have along the way. Moreover, it is often thanks to the fleeting experiences made in these unexpected contexts that Théophile Peris encounters new techniques and know-how. So many techniques, so many ways of being in the world. Earth, bones, thistles, pebbles, fleeces, iron, wood, horns, ready-mades… Between sculpture and functional object, his tools are also often made – or adapted – on site, with the means and resources offered by the immediate environment. Everything in Théophile Peris’s work is material to be sculpted, assembled, transformed. Carding, dyeing, carding again, treading the wet wool for hours, assembling, gathering, leaving and returning, rolling, starting all over again. These are the actions that follow one another and repeat like a dance, in a kind of ritual. His practice stems from his observations transcribed into drawings in his notebooks, echoing the objects he collects and accumulates in his bag or meticulously arranges on tables in his studio. These are like bestiaries where ideas, motifs, and strange creatures take shape. »