Dirty Art Department
Octave Rimbert-Rivière+
Year of birth: 1988
Place of birth: La Seyne sur Mer, France
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"Octave Rimbert-Rivière’s work is the result of unlikely chimerical gatherings: accumulations, juxtapositions, experimentations with scales and inversions. Artisanal refinement meets the mechanics of mass industrial production while the triviality of everyday objects is combined with artistic and popular references." Marie Béchetoille
In my practice, I cross over references and link them in an unhierarchical way. Those fragments glued together become monsters. Their skins and surfaces are seductive, colorful and shiny, but they hide something disturbing. They outline bodies that stand between humour and the uncanny. Like a trompe l’oeil, they flirt with the eyes of the viewer, even if finally an empty character stands behind the gaze.
The emptiness of those grotesque figures is reminding us that everything around us could be an imitation, a ghost coming back from the past, or a combination of something haunting and humourous.
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