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Loris Gréaud

In art, it’s important to have two things: Curiosity and Ambition. Loris Gréaud has both, and he lives them up splendidly. His child-like obsession with objects and knowledge leads him to a desire to fuse different disciplines and practices in a manner that is characterized as “both futuristic and utopian”. A candy without taste, a fictional studio becomes reality, a concert for deep-sea creatures, a movie that blacks out when you get close, a fiction without image, a contract for you to spend 24 hours inside the Belly of Sperm Whale, invisible architectures constructed by air currents, light bulbs that flicker in time to an EEG recording of his own brainwaves… Switching between playfulness and seriousness, rumor and fact, Gréaud ironically proposes to us a world of reversed perceptions where "everything crashes into reality". Trajectories without destination, Gréaud’s work is in a constant mutation that speaks of ideas and processes rather than an achieved representation.

In the interview with Loris Gréaud, we start with his two upcoming projects, The Unplayed Notes, his first gallery solo show in Pace Gallery (New York), and his first short film The Snorks – A Concert for Creatures which will be released in the coming months. The artist also generously shares with us his ideas of art and his comments on the contemporary art scene.

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