Exhibitions

Born in 1974 in Paris.
Lives and works in Paris and Beyrouth.
www.fxcourreges.com

François-Xavier Courrèges is a multidisciplinary artist who works with video, photography, drawing and installation art.

For Another Paradise (2005), F-X Courrèges filmed an inseparable couple for several months – two small parrots of whom it has been said that neither can live without the either. One is blue and the other is green. They perch on a wire against a solid background. Reduced to the simplest of expressions, the decor focuses the beholders’ attention on these two birds living their lives, pruning one another’s feathers, coming and going on the wire, sometimes close, sometimes far, sleeping and fluttering their wings. A formidable reserve of anthropomorphic projections, a marvellous silent metaphor for the couple, both united and in discord, its rhythms, games, pain, wrenches; they do more than adopt volatile behaviour: they are us.
AFL/AFH

"Drawing up a sort of map of twenty-first century tenderness, François-Xavier Courreges investigates under the sign of affects, that is, according to the dictionary, the "basic affective states ". From the simplicity of the device to the hypnotic mildness of the images, the universe and the vocabulary of the young artist create themselves. The state of being in love and its consequences as a world experience, the double and the projection as a means of privileged access to the other, the inability to communicate, the essential solitude of beings , ambivalence… all these participate in its poetics and interrogations. Focused on the body (his own or that of others), the artist’s videos do not necessarily form portraits, but squarely stand as vectors of simple and contradictory emotions, as emotions often are ... Here, the body and the scenery surrounding it are interdependent and François-Xavier Courrèges constructs a territory of lightness, never hesitating to venture towards starry-eyed clichés and clichés of emotionalism. Because rather than exhibiting intimate feelings, it gives the viewer the opportunity to experience them, feel them through a genuine emotional common area ". (Franck Lamy)