Prix Meurice for Contemporary Art 2011/2012

Fabien Giraud et Raphaël Siboni

Born 1980 and 1981, live in Paris.
Fabien Giraud and Raphaël Siboni have worked together since 2007. After an experience of emerging or enduring forms of subculture (airsoft, tuning, hardcore punk,…), they are now concerned with the aesthetic experience through the primitive eye of tools or machines. They consider an artwork as one of many variables in a "soft" world, in the computer programming sense of the word.

Project :
Bassae is the site of an ancient Greek temple in the Arcadian mountains of the Peloponnese. Bassae is also a 1964 film by Jean-Daniel Pollet. Bassae Bassae, a present-day reprise of the original work, is a film in sound and images of what has become a silent, invisible object. Originating from the plague and a victim of contemporary economic meltdown, Bassae rises from the landscape like a dual architecture of crisis.

Exhibitions :
Under discussion: solo show at The Emily Harvey Foundation, New York, US.

Keys :
La Condition I Le Barrage, Galerie Loevenbruck, Paris, 2010
Repetition Island, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, 2010
Dynasty, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, 2010
Les Choses qui Tombent, Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces, Fitzroy, Australia, 2009
NILF - Calculating Infinity, CAN, Neuchâtel, Switzerland, 2009
La Force de l’Art, Grand Palais, Paris, 2009
Radiografías, Mitomanía e Identidad, Centro de Cultura Antiguo Instituto, Gijón, Spain, 2009
Santa Fe Biennal, New Mexico, USA, 2008
Superdôme, Palais de Tokyo, Paris (2008)