Quentin Germain

Guest Artist
Resident Artist
Resident Artist
GUEST ARTIST

Born in 1987 in Nantes (France). Lives and works in Paris (France)

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Fascinated by archaeology and anthropology, Quentin Germain's research aims to question and challenge the Nature/Culture dualism. Influenced early on by romantic painting, as well as cinema (Andreï Tarkovsky, Werner Herzog, David Lynch), scientific imagery, and anthropology, these are essential sources of inspiration for him. His work unfolds through several mediums: painting, sculpture, drawing, and installation. Since 2016, his research has focused on ruins and the passage of time, through landscapes and objects that evoke the relationship between the natural and the artificial, as well as the concept of metamorphosis. Whether in his paintings painted on oxidized steel or in his reinforced concrete sculptures immersed in the open sea, technique dialogues with living matter, the figurative order with natural chaos, and human gesture with natural processes.

The ruins he describes are those of post-diluvian worlds, where fragments of architecture rub shoulders with the silence of the abyss, and where fields of ruins seem to awaken upon contact with the geology of the depths. Through these vestiges, sometimes anonymous and reduced to the state of symbols (stairs, doors), sometimes inspired by contemporary architecture, Quentin Germain questions our relationship to Time as much as our relationship to the non-human world that surrounds us. Since 2020, he has been a permanent resident of the POUSH incubator, where his workshop is located.

In 2021, he was a winner of the New Worlds Program initiated by the Ministry of Culture, with a monumental underwater installation project entitled the Sanctuary. Its inauguration is scheduled to take place in the summer of 2024.

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