François Génot lives and works in a rural area of eastern France. Active on the international scene since 2005, he has undertaken numerous residencies and exhibitions in France and abroad. In 2020 and 2021, his work entered the collections of the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Strasbourg and the FRAC Alsace. A founding member and active participant in numerous community-based projects, he contributes significantly to the development of culture in rural areas. He has taught drawing at the École Supérieure d’Art de Lorraine in Metz since 2016.
François Génot draws his attitude and the driving force of his approach from the resilience and proliferation of life. Travel, collecting, and a particular attention to materials, forms, and natural phenomena nourish his practice. The processes he develops according to the seasons and the different environments he frequents allow him to maintain an active collaboration with the living world. In 2023 he collaborated with the LMNO gallery in Brussels, developed a large-scale project with the FRAC Alsace around ferality (dedomestication of nature) as an artist and curator, carried out a residency at the Ferme Asile in Sion in the Valais Switzerland and exhibited in Quebec and at the HBK in Saarbrücken, Germany, participated in the Luxembourg Art Week with the Octave Cowbell gallery and in the Fertile à Par exhibition project.
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François GÉNOT
François GÉNOT