Artist Statement
Cyrille Weiner is based in Paris and was born in 1976, he studied at the École Nationale Supérieure Louis Lumière after completing a Masters in Economics.
His work has been published by several international magazines and exhibited at the Musée d’Art Contemporain in Lyon, the Rencontres d’Arles, the Villa Noailles in Hyères, the Centre de Photographie in Lectoure, the Guangdong Museum of Art in China and the Festival of Light in Buenos Aires.
Cyrille Weiner is interested in the uses and appropriation of places and questions the fictional and poetic power of the photographic document. He runs the blog Silverpoetics (silverpoetics.wordpress.com) and for more information about his work, see www.cyrilleweiner.com
Cyrille Weiner is interested in the uses and appropriation of places. His projects – Le Bout du Monde (2001-2005), which depicts people camping on a beach that is devoid of any infrastructure, and Les Longs Murs (a state commission from the Centre National des Arts Plastiques and the EPA Euroméditerranée in 2004), which explores the port area of Marseille – document the interaction between planned public space and private space. In 2005, he was commissioned by the villa Noailles, for the exhibition Oui, avec plaisir, to photograph the performing arts venues designed by architect Patrick Bouchain, which he chose to capture occupied, inhabited and in use. The collaboration with the architect continued later in the year with Fait main (Arc en rêve, CAPC de Bordeaux) and Metavilla (French pavilion, 10th Venice International Architecture Biennale, 2006).
In Presque Île, as in his previous works, Cyrille Weiner proposes a free interpretation of geographic, urban and social issues through an artistic practice that calls into question the fictional and poetic power of the photographic document.
Based in Paris, Cyrille Weiner was born in 1976 and studied at the École Nationale Supérieure Louis Lumière. His work has been published by several international magazines and exhibited at the Musée d’Art Contemporain in Lyon, the Rencontres d’Arles, the Villa Noailles in Hyères, the Centre de Photographie in Lectoure, the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, the Guangdong Museum of Art in China and the Festival of Light in Buenos Aires.
www.cyrilleweiner.com
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