François Quévillon Artist Talk: François Quévillon
François Quévillon. Photo : Nancy Lombart.
Artist François Quévillon will talk about his practice, which examines global upheavals and contemporary representations. Following an overview of previous works supported by audiovisual documentation, he will discuss the body of work that makes up the exhibition La Terre en suspens presented at OBORO until May 20, 2023.
La Terre en suspens is inspired by geology in order to probe the space-time and materiality of the digital. Mainly composed of digitized rock formations and fragments of territories altered by algorithms, the works echo the implications and effects of certain technologies on perception, while offering new perspectives on the evolution of the Earth, its substance and the processes that impact it, such as erosion, volcanism, as well as the extraction and transformation of minerals in a context marked by globalization and climate change.
François Quévillon. Photo : Nancy Lombart.
François Quévillon is a Montreal-based artist who works regularly in residencies and interdisciplinary collaborations. He holds a master’s degree in visual and media arts from the Université du Québec à Montréal (2008). Active for more than twenty years, he has presented his work in several exhibitions and events in the fields of contemporary art, cinema and digital creation. Among them: Connecting the Dots (Mexico City), New Frontier at the Sundance Film Festival (Park City), Under Observation at the Knockdown Center (New York), ISEA (Gwangju, Dubai and Albuquerque), Open Media Art Fair (Seoul), Intervals (Nizhny Novgorod), FILE (São Paulo), IndieBo (Bogotá), LOOP Barcelona, Contemporary Istanbul, Mirage Festival (Lyon), Mois Multi (Quebec), Espace [IM] Média (Sherbrooke), FIFA, MUTEK, NeurIPS, RIDM, Elektra and BIAN (Montreal).