BIO Philippe CHARLES 49 rue de Citeaux, 75012 Paris Mob : +33 6 62 66 26 91 Home : +33 9 51 70 51 27 Web : http://www.philippecharles.fr Email : mail@philippecharles.fr BIO Philippe CHARLES dŽveloppe un travail artistique tournŽ vers lĠinstallation au sein duquel le mŽdium vidŽo sĠaffirmera comme central. La dŽmarche de Philippe Charles trouve sa source dans un cheminement personnel qui lĠamne ˆ traiter des Žtats fondamentaux de lĠexistence (physiques ou autres) tels que l'Žtat de vie ou de mort, sclŽrose, dŽgŽnŽrescence ou renouvellement, assimilation ou rŽsistance... Elle relve dĠune relation "dangereuse" au monde. Progressivement lĠinstallation devient un travail de mise en scne de prises de vues, opŽrant ainsi une suppression de lĠobjet sculptŽ ou peint, mis en question par ailleurs dans son rapport au spectateur, pour ne laisser la place quĠˆ lĠessentiel : une qute aigue de sens dĠun artiste dans et face au monde. Cette mise en question de lĠobjet ainsi que sa disparition sont prolongŽes par un questionnement direct de l' humain -en tant qu'il appartient au monde, y contribue, dans un environnement parfois hostile, avec des limites qui lui sont imposŽes et dont le sens nous Žchappe-. Proposant ses mises en scne de prise de vues" comme des espaces "Žnigmatiques" laissant place ˆ de multiples associations, la premire approche des Ïuvres de Philippe Charles peut dŽconcerter. Aprs cette premire approche, parfois inquite, nous percevons sa qute : se transformer pour poursuivre un chemin dĠtre en perpŽtuel ajustement, Žchapper ˆ la sclŽrose, favoriser la rencontre, la rŽgŽnŽration. Tels sont les questionnements auxquels nous sommes confrontŽs au contact des oeuvres de Philippe Charles. Une dŽmarche artistique puissante, humaine, spirituelle qui se prŽoccupe peu de lĠart en soi mais vit l'acte artistique comme moyen de recherche de et sur soi ainsi qu'une proposition d' un juste positionnement au monde. Son travail dĠartiste se dŽploie de mme au sein dĠune structure associative 3015 (http://www.3015.org) quĠil a crŽŽ en 2000, afin dĠinviter dĠautres artistes ˆ investir un espace lui appartenant dans le 12e arrondissement ˆ Paris. After several years of a solitary and auto-didactic painting and sculpture practice Philippe Charles has developed an artistic practice involving installation, in which the medium of video occupies an increasing central position. Within this installation work he is gradually making room for directed works in which the scene is set, then filmed, bringing about the disappearance of objects. This disappearance is called into question through the viewerĠs relationship with it, leaving room only for the essential: a quest for acute meaning by a man who is in, and confronted by the world. This challenging of the object as well as of its disappearance is prolonged by an increasingly direct questioning of the human condition in a dehumanising society. Profoundly critical, Philippe Charles's artistic practice has is origins in a personal progression, which lead him to question fundamental notions of existence such as the states of life and death, degeneration and renewal, assimilation and resistances His work comes from a committed, and therefore dangerous, relationship with the world. Experiencing artworks which come from such a position is never trivial. Following the first encounter with the works, which may be brutal or troubling, they question us as the viewer, but above all as part of and contributors to the world. Dealing with an environment which is sometimes hostile and whose limits which are imposed on us and so their meaning escapes us; transforming yourself in order to follow to your own path, being in a state of perpetual change; escaping sclerosis; concentrating on the meeting that enables regeneration; these are the preoccupations that confront us when we come into contact with Phillip CharlesĠs work. An artistic practice bothers little with art, except as a way of finding a justifiable position within the world. His artwork is developed in the association 3015 (http://www.3015.org), which he created in 2000, which invites other artists to occupies space which belongs to him in the 12th arrondissement of Paris L.B (translation: Lindsay Onions)