The Art of The Plant
Florentine & Alexandre Lamarche-Ovize
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Florentine and Alexandre Lamarche-Ovize have been working together since 2006. Their practice is resolutely hybrid, migrant and fragmented—combining sculpture, drawing, photography, objects and posters. Their installations constitute only a stopping point in their work process, which they conceive of as a flux of continuous experiment, a perpetual act of calling into question the forms and sign they use.
Each work is seen as a chapter of a much broader narrative that goes well beyond the framework of an exhibition, condenses earlier experiments and contains the elements of works to come. The syntax of each work is shifting and their vocabulary is inspired by great literature, such as Melville, Gombrowicz, Ponge, as much as by the history of painting and sculpture. Lamarche-Ovize also incorporate comic strips and cinema (non-linear narration, notions of framing and montage) into their work. Elements of everyday life and their immediate environment are also integrated, grounding the propositions in the urban, social and cultural context out of which they act.
Lamarche-Ovize have had recent solo shows at Luis Adelantado Galeria in Mexico, Centre d’art Contemporain Les Capucins, Embrun, France, Parc Culturel de Rentilly, Rentilly, France, and Luis Adelantado Galeria, Valencia. Their works are part of several private …
Florentine and Alexandre Lamarche-Ovize have been working together since 2006. Their practice is resolutely hybrid, migrant and fragmented—combining sculpture, drawing, photography, objects and posters. Their installations constitute only a stopping point in their work process, which they conceive of as a flux of continuous experiment, a perpetual act of calling into question the forms and sign they use.
Each work is seen as a chapter of a much broader narrative that goes well beyond the framework of an exhibition, condenses earlier experiments and contains the elements of works to come. The syntax of each work is shifting and their vocabulary is inspired by great literature, such as Melville, Gombrowicz, Ponge, as much as by the history of painting and sculpture. Lamarche-Ovize also incorporate comic strips and cinema (non-linear narration, notions of framing and montage) into their work. Elements of everyday life and their immediate environment are also integrated, grounding the propositions in the urban, social and cultural context out of which they act.
Lamarche-Ovize have had recent solo shows at Luis Adelantado Galeria in Mexico, Centre d’art Contemporain Les Capucins, Embrun, France, Parc Culturel de Rentilly, Rentilly, France, and Luis Adelantado Galeria, Valencia. Their works are part of several private and public collections including FMAC Ville de Paris, FRAC Île-de-France, FRAC Pays de la Loire, and FRAC Midi-Pyrénées, among others. They have recently been selected for Open Sessions 2016-2017 Program organized by The Drawing Center in New York.
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Born 1978 and 1980
Lives and Works Aubervilliers, France
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