Jean-François Boclé
Born in Fort-de-France in 1971
Jean-François Boclé lives and works in Paris. After his studies in Modern Literature at Sorbonne university, he was trained from 1991 to 1998 first at the Beaux-Arts de Bourges and then at the Beaux-Arts de Paris.
His work was featured in France, among other places: in 2005 at Centre d’Art Contemporain Le Parvis, in 2006 at Fonds régional d'art contemporain Champagne-Ardenne (Reims); in Europe, in London, Brussels, Thessaloniki, Liverpool, Florence, Moscow, Prague; in Latin America, in Bogotá, Quito Martinique, Guadeloupe, Panamá, Cuba. In 2007 he took part in the 1st Thessaloniki Biennale (Society must be defended, State Museum of Contemporary Art, Greece).
In 2008 his most important monographic exhibition, «I Did Not Discover America», was displayed in Sweden in the 1000m2 of the BildMuseet, with more than 10 000 visitors. In 2009 he had a personal exhibition in Gallery Nomad in Brussels, and he displayed his work in collective exhibitions, notably in the 10th Biennal of Havana (Cuba), in the Grande Halle de la Villette («Kreyol Factory», Paris), in La Cambre (Brussels, Belgium), in the MAC Panamá, in the Little Haïti Cultural Center (Global Caribbean, included in the official Art Basel Miami Beach art fair program). In 2010 he will take part into group shows miXed with Yinka Shonibare, Bernie Searle (Cloître des Récollettes, Gent, Belgium), Global Caribbean at MIAM (Sète, France) or 31th Biennale de Pontevedra in Spain. He will be for a Solo Show at ART BRUSSELS 2010 international art fair with the Gallery Nomad.
His work is polysemic, one might even say polyphonic. His ways of artistic expression moves from one medium to another: installations, videos, drawings, sculptures, photographs, interventions in public spaces, performances, writings. In a sometimes sarcastic and willingly provocative manner, he brings closer together individual narrative and history: his childhood in his « immeasurable island »(1), until the age of 15, the experience of being taken away from his native land, and history, which is the history of his continent, America, the history of the «divisions of the world, in Valladolid, Berlin, Versailles, Yalta, or Davos»(1). His work is a poetic and political approach of the contemporary world marked by «migrations, exile, exclusion, exchange and loss» (1).
(1) JFB
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