Prix Meurice for Contemporary Art 2011/2012

Nicolas Moulin

Born 1970, lives in Berlin.
Since the early 1990s, Nicolas Moulin's photography and video have been informed by the urban, architectural and technological myths of the twentieth century; those of the Russian constructivists and the ultra-modernists of the 1960s. In 2001, at Galerie Chez Valentin, he showed Vider Paris, an almost visionary digital projection of a fictional Paris, emptied of its inhabitants. Since then, he has continued to propose sound and video installations and shows his work internationally.

Project :
Blanklumdermilk is a group of found photographs, certain of which have been retouched. A fictional architectural element is inserted into the urban landscape, where it becomes the trace not of an adulterated past but the dashed dream of a utopian society; an architectural fantasy whose realistic visual aspect reveals the "mourning" of modernist myths.

Exhibitions :
Klemm's, Berlin, Germany; Site Gallery, Sheffield, UK; Amt Project, Bratislava, Slovakia.

Keys :
Erre (labyrinthine variations), Centre Pompidou-Metz, Metz, France, September 2011 - March 2012
French Window: Looking at Contemporary Art Through the Marcel Duchamp Prize, Art Mori Museum, Tokyo, Japan, 2011
Nel Palazzo di Cristallo, CA'ASI, Venice Biennale, Italy, 2011
Dar Al-Ma'mûm, Morroco, Residency, July - November 2011
French Art Today: Marcel Duchamp Prize, NMCA - National Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, South Korean, 2011
Interlichtengespenstereinzuladendarandenken, Klemm's, Berlin, Germany, 2011
Goldbarrgorod, Galerie Carrée, Villa Arson, Nice, 2010