Jérome Hâvre: Paradis: La Fabrique de l’Image.
From April until May 16
14°N 61°W
espace d’art contemporain
19, rue du Mérite Artisanal – Z.A Dillon
97200 Fort de France – Martinique FWI
+596 596 971887
14n61w@gmail.com
Untitled, 2015.
About:
Biography Jerome HAVRE is French artist based between Canada and Germany. He completed his studies at the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris. During his time at the School of Fine Arts he was awarded three scholarships that enabled him to pursue different art practices: silk printing techniques in New York (Cooper Union), printing techniques in Barcelona (Bellas Artes) and painting and video in Berlin (Universität der Künste Berlin – HDK) in the workshop of Marwan Kassab Bashi. His work interrogates issues of identity, territory and community through the representation of nature. That is, the manner in which it is presented and yet can be more readily perceived through our cultural filters.
Untitled, 2015.
According to Havre, “nature is deliberately altered in order to deceive us and keep order.” He develops in his creation reflexive spaces through immersive processes. He looks for ways to do this through presentation, creation of situations, or setting the stage with his sculptures and inviting the public to take part “in the show.” He is inspired by the production of natural history dioramas in museums and zoos and reappropriates their method in his artistic work. He thus presents “a second nature” which encourages a careful reading. To design these “shelters,” Jerome HAVRE uses textiles, sculpture, digital prints, photographic images, murals, sound recording, and videos to create scenographic installations.
Anthropologie de l’Image, 2010.
For him, the use of a technological process is not only to accomplish a specific task, but a necessary form of expression itself. (text and courtesy: Donald Browne Gallery, 372 Ste-Catherine West, ch. 528, Montreal, Quebec, Canada H3B 1A2, phone 514.380.3221, info@galeriedonaldbrowne.com)
