Benoît Maire brings together notes, drawings, rough drafts of sculptures, photomontages, collages, and paintings, in order to measure the precarious equilibrium between an image and its concept. He's in search of an intersection between formal and mental space where an esthetic can blossom. Here, the “differend,” a notion borrowed from Jean-François Lyotard, enables the artist to broach two paradigms that structure post-conceptual art: relativism and linguistic form. After having earned a M.A. in Philosophy at the Sorbonne, Benoît Maire studied art at the Villa Arson in Nice until 2003. His work was recently exhibited in France at the New Festival at Pompidou Center and in the Modules at Palais de Tokyo (2008), as well as in London at the Institute of Contemporary Arts and the Lisson Gallery. In 2010, Benoît Maire was invited to have a solo show at the Aquitaine FRAC. He is represented by the Corthex Athletico Gallery (Bordeaux). In 2009, the artist began researching the “aesthetics of differends.”
Born in 1978. Lives and works in Paris. Represented by gallery Cortex Athletico, Bordeaux.