Thursday, April 30 at 7:00 PM

Lecture / Meeting with Dominique Blais

Dominique Blais is an artist and Associate Senior Lecturer at EAS – University Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne. He is the co-founder of MEAN – a production and exhibition space, artist-run, located in Saint-Nazaire, Loire-Atlantique, and co-directs the Michel Journiac Gallery at the École des Arts de la Sorbonne in Paris.

Graduated from the École des Beaux-Arts de Nantes in 1998, he holds a DEA in Multimedia Media from the Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers in Paris and continued his studies at the Collège Invisible, a post-graduate program of the École Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Marseille, under the direction of Paul Devautour in 2004–2005. After completing his studies, he organized an artistic program at Confluences, a theater in eastern Paris, focusing on electronic and experimental music. He was an active member of the artist-run space Glassbox from 2004 to 2006.

Dominique Blais situates his work within a contextual logic. Place, temporality, and constraint(s) thus become subjects and/or objects that the artist explores and interrogates to develop a conceptual and formal response in relation to the key elements of his practice: the sensory and physical perception of our environment, the relationship to the invisible and the inaudible, and the materialization of time. Through an artistic practice nourished by a taste for experimentation and the exploration of new media, materials, and techniques, the artist creates works that simultaneously or successively question space, time, history, and the memory of places, engaging the audience’s perceptive capacities.

His work has been the subject of numerous solo and group exhibitions, notably at the Son Biennale in Valais, Switzerland; the contemporary art center Le Lait in Albi; the Carré – Chapelle du Genêteil in Château-Gontier; the Lyon Biennale; the Musée d’arts de Nantes; the Frac Franche-Comté in Besançon; the Minsheng Art Museum in Shanghai; Vilnius Academy of Arts; Zacheta National Gallery of Art in Warsaw; the Palais de Tokyo, the Grand Palais, the Musée des Arts et Métiers, and the Musée de La Poste in Paris; the Villa Arson in Nice; and the MAC VAL in Vitry-sur-Seine. His works are included in numerous public and private collections.

Dominique Blais was born in 1974 in Châteaubriant, Loire-Atlantique. He lives and works in Paris and is represented by the Xippas Gallery.

He will engage in a discussion with François Quintin, Director of the Collection, talking about his career and artistic approach, and will frame this conversation around his monographic catalogue.

Practical information

Thursday, April 30 – 7:00 PM
Auditorium of the Lambert Collection
Free admission, subject to availability